Action Groups - Multiple Steps

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I want to create one action group for a few hundred albums I have.
Filename is: 01 - John Doe - My Song 2020.

I want to separate all of this information into the different columns. The year is working, and removing the year from the filename. I get the artist, title, genre and track from the filename. I don't get albumartist from the artist field, and the filename isn't renamed with artist - title. The mixed case is working.

Any suggestions on where I am getting hung up? I really want to keep this as one click and done.
Format Value "year": $right(%_filename%,4)
Format value "_filename": cutRight(%_filename%,5)
Guess Values "_filename":%track% - %artist% - %title%
Guess Values "%artist%": %artist%~%albumartist%
Regular expression "_all": "&" -> "&"
Format Value "%_filename%": %artist% - %title%
Format Value "track": $num(%track%,1)
Format Value "track": $if(%track%,$num(%track%,1),)
Regular Expression "genre": "Other" -> "Oldies"
Format Value "Album": "My MixTape"

Looking at this, could this: Format Value "%_filename%": %artist% - %title% be the problem?

2

I think that MP3tag executes filename operations always last irrespective of their position in an action group.
So I would shorten TITLE
Format Value "year": $right(%_filename%,4)
Guess Values "_filename":%track% - %artist% - %title%
Format value "TITLE": cutRight(%title%,5)

3

For TITLE, I am now getting 01 - John Doe - My Song
Still no Albumartist, and the Filename stays the same.

4

I do not see where you set TITLE except the guess value action - but that either works completely or it does not at all.
So could you show what the action group looks like now?

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6

I think that steps 2, guess value from filename and step 3 get the FILENAME minus the last 5 characters is where problems may arise.
Stipulated, that the guess value from the filename has worked would lead to a TITLE with

but then you use the _FILENAME as source to remove the last 5 characters.
This would lead to

I suggest that you use $cutright(%title%,5) in step 3 where you treat the TITLE.

7

Yes, I didn't catch that when I changed it to TITLE. Everything is working now except the album artist.

8

Looking at "John Doe" I do not see the ~ as separator - to get 2 pieces of data from a single field, it would require something like
"John~Doe"
to get an ARTIST called John and an ALBUMARTIST called Doe.
If you want to copy the contents of ARTIST to ALBUMARTIST, use
Format value for ALBUMARTIST
Format string: %artist%

9

Perfect. Thank you very much for your help. Hope you are staying safe during these times. Now my eyes won't burn so much at the end of the day. :grinning: