Copying Fields and Adding them to Blank Fields

[Winston1979]

Hi,

Is there a way of copying a field, e.g Artist Field to Album Artist field.

I tried tag-tag method but this didn't work possibly because I may have been doing something wrong.
Let me know

Thanks

[ohrenkino]

See the FAQs:

Actions and batch-operations

How to copy one field value to another field? Example how to copy the content of the ARTIST field to the ALBUMARTIST field: Create a new action in an existing action group or make a new action group. Action type: Format value Field: ALBUMARTIST Format string: %artist% Note: If you want to copy all possible values of a field (in case you have multiple artist fields), the internal scripting function $meta_sep can be used in the format string, e.g., $meta_sep(artist,\\\\)

[Winston1979]

Thanks or your response, this doesn't seem to work for me, have I done this correctly?

Kind Regards

[ohrenkino]

If you put the contents of ARTIST into ARTIST then this will not change ALBUMARTIST.
I think that the linked HowTo shows what to do exactly for ALBUMARTIST:

[Winston1979]

Ah yes, it not looks like this however all is does is clear the artist field.

[ohrenkino]

could you please follow the linked example? That describes exactly what you have to do.

[Winston1979]

What should it look like? I'm missing something here.

[ohrenkino]

It should be the other way round in respect to FIELD and Format string.
Which is exactly what it says here:

@Florian

Action type: Format value
Field: ALBUMARTIST
Format string: %artist%

[Winston1979]

@Florian

ALBUMARTIST

Ok, so I was doing it backwards, that has worked, thanks for the help.