Hello there, my head is spinning after spending hours trying to make this work. I filter to locate tracks I want to edit: "$meta_sep(Artist,\\)" HAS \\ If album artist name UB40 differs from the artist name (for example UB40\Chrissie Hynde), add "(feat. Chrissie Hynde) to the title and filename. …

[image] sheepdisease: Thanks for your reply. SO to clarify, are you saying the first action should be Replace with regex $meta_sep(%artist%,', ') I hae not said anything about that being the first action nor did I say anything about an action of the type "replace with regex". What I said: …

Here is a thread about a chain of equal separators where the first should become one and the last a different one: [image] Artist tag replace multiple "and" with commas and "and" Support Artist tag replace multiple "and" with commas and "and" First as a tip, i have this r…

As always, thank you! I think I found the post about it. $regexp($meta_sep(artist,', '),'(.*), (.*)',$1 & $2) "A:\Music\UB40\03 Breakfast In Bed.mp3" -> "A:\Music\UB40\UB40 & Chrissie Hynde.mp3" So I can see it's picking up the right data, it just doesn't know how to manipulate it. You refer to …

At the moment it's clearly picking up UB40, I want regex to ignore the first name in the artist list if it matches the name in album artist and work through anything thereafter to include in %feat_artist%. ChatGPT suggested: [image] $if($eql(%artist%,%albumartist%),%title%,$if($eql($meta(artist…

[image] sheepdisease: ChatGPT suggested: And? Does it work? Or would support by natural intelligence bring you closer? [image] sheepdisease: 1.The code should be used in Mp3tag to modify tags and filenames for music files. A good way is always: first get the data right in the tags, th…

Thanks for your reply. Clearly your natural intelligence is far superior to that of AI in this instance! If there are already artists listed with commands and &, those should retain their formatting and once & is declared, it knows the subsequent artist in the list is the last one and can then add…

[image] sheepdisease: When I look at the artist list, it's divided by \\ in mp3tag. Windows shows it as: Then you can use the scripting function $meta_sep(fieldname,', ') to get all the artists separated by a comma or even better by a semicolon. Then you apply the action to replace the separ…

[image] sheepdisease: So it's not clear to me what divides the artists names up. There is "nothing" dividing the multiple ARTIST tag contents. That dividing character you see as \\ is only to represent a visible divider between the different ARTIST contents. Technically, there are 3 ARTIST …

Thanks for your reply. SO to clarify, are you saying the first action should be Replace with regex $meta_sep(%artist%,', ') Then what? Thank you for explaining about the spelling check. I am going to assume the spelling is consistent, so any regex will pick up only the correct variations. I unde…

[image] ohrenkino: $meta_sep(artist,', ') Thanks for your reply, so I should make it? $regexp($meta_sep(artist,', '),'(.*), (.*)',$1 & $2) I don't know what I am supposed to do next, I'm not feeling particularly clever right now.

You can test the regular expression with Convert>Tag-Tag. So check if that does what you intended to do.

Conditional formatting with featured artists to add to title and filename

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Here is a thread about a chain of equal separators where the first should become one and the last a different one:

You only have to adapt it to your separator.