the question may be moot, unless emby would consider moving away from ffprobe for music tag extraction. https://superuser.com/questions/1282809/is-ffmpeg-able-to-read-multiple-values-in-an-id3v2-4-tag i dont think ffprobe supports reading multiple values separated by id3v2.4 null character specification i have just tested it again 3+ years on from when this bug was reported and as far as i can tell ffprobe is still deficient. i used mp3tag to write an id3v2.4 multivalue artis