Album name included in path

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Hi, my mp3 files are usually contained in this filesystem structure: path/artist/album.
However, when the album is not meaningful to me (say I only have a few songs from the entire album) the album is removed from the path and the songs are loosely contained inside a folder bearing just the name of the Artist: path/artist/
For these songs I would like to have the album information removed.
So how to I find such songs? My idea was to filter as follows:
NOT %_path% HAS %Album%
because I want to find songs for which the album tag is present but does not coincide with the path. However the filter does not work. I also tried with %_directory% but still no luck. Any idea? Thanks.

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This is no valid filter syntax.
Try
"$ifgreater($strstr(%_path%,%album%),0,yes,no)" IS no

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That's great, thanks. Is there any way to make that case-insensitive?

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Try:
"$ifgreater($strstr($lower(%_path%),$lower(%album%)),0,yes,no)" IS no

5

That works, many thanks again.

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Use caution with this, in cases where the album name is also the artist name (so called self titled albums).

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Right, there is that exception. Altough I suppose since the query does not return the self titles albums, one would simply fail to delete the album tags only in those specific cases.

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You could append the filter to:
"$ifgreater($strstr($lower(%_path%),$lower(%album%)),0,yes,no)" IS no AND "$if($eql(%artist%,%album%),1,0)" IS 0

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