Summary

• Narrow the default artist delimiter set to avoid splitting common punctuation inside artist names.
• Normalize stored legacy delimiter preferences to the new default on read.
• Reuse the same delimiter logic across cloud imports, album grouping, and metadata updates so display artist selection stays consistent.
• Add tests covering preserved artist names, legacy preference migration, and feature-heavy album display selection.

Fixed Issues

• Fixes [Bug]: The character "&" is not displayed in the artist section #2408
• Fixes [Bug]: albums is sperating #2409
• Fixes [Feature]: Artist Separation #2365
• Fixes [Bug]: Album artist name replaced with track artist(s) #2366

Related Reports

• Related to The '/' in AC/DC gets counted as a separator #1823, [Feature request] blacklist some artist from multi-artist parsing #1024, Featurings between artists appear as individual artists #974, Multi-Artist songs show as one artist #1057, Multiple Artists #1468, [Improvement Request] Artist and Album Display #668

Testing

• JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-21-openjdk PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/java-21-openjdk/bin:$PATH ./gradlew :app:testDebugUnitTest --tests 'com.theveloper.pixelplay.data.worker.ArtistParsingUtilsTest' --tests 'com.theveloper.pixelplay.data.worker.AlbumGroupingUtilsTest' --tests 'com.theveloper.pixelplay.data.preferences.UserPreferencesRepositoryTest' --tests 'com.theveloper.pixelplay.data.stream.CloudMusicUtilsTest'
• JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-21-openjdk PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/java-21-openjdk/bin:$PATH ./gradlew :app:assembleDebug :app:installDebug
• Launched com.theveloper.pixelplay.debug on attached SM-S928B via adb; process stayed running and logcat showed no FATAL EXCEPTION / AndroidRuntime crash.