@ryerman This is a follow-on to my previous thread . I have a list of words which I want to search for in several fields, including ALBUM, DIRECTORY and FILENAME and then remove. [image] Could you please tell me whether you can think of a way to make this happen in less lines than currently displ…

[image] sheepdisease: ......Could you please tell me whether you can think of a way to make this happen in less lines than currently displayed? The less the better....... 3 lines, 1 for each field, like this: Action: Format value Field: _DIRECTORY Format String: $replace(%_directory%, '('A…

The other way around? Do you have fields where you want to keep (Album), (Digital Album), (EP), (LP), (Single)? If not: You could remove it from _ALL instead of ALBUM, _DIRECTORY and _FILENAME

[image] sheepdisease: I have a list of words which I want to search for in several fields, including ALBUM, DIRECTORY and FILENAME and then remove. Hasn't all this been discussed in this thread? [image] Using TAG in actions/combining actions for different tags Support …

Thanks for your replies. @LyricsLover The intended use is to keep this within an all-in-one action group. If I add this action to the beginning it would be possible to make it work as you have suggested. If I were to do this, I could reduce the number of lines from 15 to 5 (which is a pretty goo…

Just to add the "Guess value" example: Action: Guess value Source: $replace(%_directory% == %_filename% === %album%, '('Album')',, '('Digital Album')',, '('EP')',, '('LP')',, '('Single')',) String: %_directory% == %_filename% === %album% There is no guarantee that it actually works with this com…

@ohrenkino Thanks for providing an alternative solution. I tested it but it didn't pick up (ep) from any fields mentioned unless the case matched exactly as specified in the example given. There does appear to be a limitation with this method whereby the directory name is not affected. Interestin…

@ryerman Thank you for your suggestions. I can confirm that I tested the first suggested and it worked perfectly regardless of case used. Can this be used with _TAG? I can't make that work in testing: [image] It does not affect case. Neither does _ALL. Listing them all out makes a difference ex…

[image] sheepdisease: Not sure why that is? My guess: Because _TAG and _ALL are not allowed as the Field in a "Format Value" action. There is no default field called ALBUM ARTIST in Mp3tag. Use ALBUMARTIST, without a space.

Thank you for confirming both points. The problem was 'Album Artist' not being 'AlbumArtist'. I presume _TAG or _ALL can be incorporated into this by using regex replace?

[image] sheepdisease: I presume _TAG or _ALL can be incorporated into this by using regex replace? Yes. You can tell they are allowed because they are hard-coded into the drop-down list of the "Replace with regular expression" action, unlike in the "Format value" action. Try it and see.

I tried replacing the several fields with _ALL using regexp and the action did not work. It seems to only work when the major fields/file attributes are dictated? [image] I tried to use %_ALL% instead of %ARTIST% within the brackets but this made no difference? [image]

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ohrenkino August 6, 2018, 8:16am 3

Hasn't all this been discussed in this thread?

Why the double-post?