I have downloaded MP3TAG to a new computer and require some assistance. Stupidly I did not take a backup of my original which had purpose made 'ACTIONS' I have lost my copy of the syntax code to create 2 separate 'Actions' To enable ARTISTSORT to convert for example, (Artist) Elvis Presley to …

[image] IdrisR: it cleared previous altered sort names and did nothing to removing 'The' from group names. Sorry about that. I forgot that mp3tag is a bit overactive when you use $regexp. I wish there was an option to simply abort if no match is found instead of using the input string as the …

See e.g. here: [image] First Name Last Name with any frailing words to Last Name, First Name and Trailing words Support I have been using this Action to switch a simple First Name Last Name to Last Name, First Name: Replace with regular expression: Regular Expression ^(…

For the first you could create an action like this: [grafik] $regexp(%artist%,(.*) (.*),$2',' $1) This creates (or overwrites) ARTISTSORT like you want. But as soon as you have more than one artist or artists that are bands instead of people it stops working. Depending on how your artists are na…

If the "the" messes up the sorting (which I can understand as the Beatles called themselves "The Beatles" and occasionally just "Beatles" which would lead to some entries to be found under "B" and others under "T"...) I would still look at it with a sober glance and estimated rationally: Does the "…

[image] ohrenkino: the Beatles called themselves "The Beatles" and occasionally just "Beatles" which would lead to some entries to be found under "B" and others under "T"...) For my own collection I've "solved" this issue by pretty much ignoring the "artist" and unifying the albumartist. Arti…

Interesting! So - for example - do you use "Cat Stevens" as ALBUMARTIST even for his releases as "Yusuf Islam"? Or do you use his real name "Steven Demetre Georgiou"?

You Remember? [image] How to cope with artists who change their name Off-Topic How would you tag the albums of a band which decided to change it's bandname from "Mandolin Orange" in "Watchhouse" in 2021, had 6 albums under name of "Mandolin Orange" from 2010-2019 and 1 al…

[image] LyricsLover: So - for example - do you use "Cat Stevens" as ALBUMARTIST even for his releases as "Yusuf Islam"? Usually the name the artist is best known as, so to a degree it's arbitrary or rather depends on which name I know best. The upside is that since I don't touch the artist, s…

Thanks for your help. So your first string would change sort to show surname first eg: Presley, Elvis Second string would remove 'The' from group names (The Beatles would change to Beatles) Could you advise how to have these 2 actions for the ARTISTSORT String? I did have separate entries in my …

These 2 actions create/change the ARTISTSORT tag depending on the content of the ARTIST tag. If ARTIST is Elvis Presley, action 1 sets ARTISTSORT to Presley, Elvis. If ARTIST is The Beatles, action 2 sets ARTISTSORT to Beatles.

[image] IdrisR: So your first string would change sort to show surname first eg: Presley, Elvis Second string would remove 'The' from group names (The Beatles would change to Beatles) If you execute the 2 actions in that order, then I assume that the second will not remove any leading "the" …

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