Lack of conformity with ID3V2.3 standard as regards multiple artists

Question

Hi there!
It is defined in the informal standard for audio tags ID3V2.3 (http://www.id3.org/d3v2.3.0) that multiple artists can be listed as independent, coequal lead performers in the text information frame TPE1 ("lead artist(s)/lead performer(s)/soloist(s)/performing group"). The "/" character is meant to be used to seperate the individual entities.
In this regard both the iPod an iTunes do not adhere to the ID3V2.3 standard and misinterpret audio tags which have been formated as described above: multiple artists in the TPE1 frame are mistaken for a single entity, thus leading to problems with the sorting of tracks. Example given: a duet by John Doe and Jane Roe (TPE1: "John Doe/Jane Roe") is not listed under John Doe on the one hand and Jane Roe on the other hand, but credited to the non-existing new artist "John Doe/Jane Roe".
Other text information frames seem to suffer from the same erroneous (or lack of) interpretation of the "/" character, or rather from the failure to support multiple entities in a text frame.
In various scenarios workarounds such as characterizing songs to belong to a "compilation" or defining an "album artist" are not helping and they generally cannot make up for the non-compliance with the open and widely accepted ID3V2.3 standard.
Can one expect Apple to fix this and to establish ID3V2.3-conformity in this matter?
With kind regards!

Answer 1

We are all just your fellow users here and have no inside knowledge of Apple's plans. As you did point out, it's an informal standard, one that seems rather loosely followed.
Submit your feedback to Apple directly:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
Your post was very well thought out and written, so you'd be a great person to make such a suggestion.
Best of luck.