CSV export file empty

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Hi everyone,

I’m tyring to export my metadata in CSV format to work with it in Excel. I’ve been fiddling around with the export file, but no matter what I do, all I get is a CSV file without any metadata at all, just the titles of the fields. I am using this:

$filename(csv,utf-16)Album;Albumartist;Year;Publisher;
$loop(%album%;%albumartist%;%year%;%publisher%;)
$loopend()

What did I do wrong?

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... you are missing a closing bracket for the $loop() statement.
Also, You should define in $loop() by which criteria you want to sort the data.
Finally, between $loop() and $loopend() you declare the output.
So, I could imagine, that this is better

$filename(csv,utf-16)Album;Albumartist;Year;Publisher;
$loop(%album%)%album%;%albumartist%;%year%;%publisher%
$loopend()
3

This does indeed work! However, it now repeats the album title depending on the number of tracks that album has. So a 21-track album becomes 21 times the album title.

4

Try

$filename(csv,utf-16)Album;Albumartist;Year;Publisher;
$loop(%album%,1)%album%;%albumartist%;%year%;%publisher%
$loopend()
5

Just an ammendment:
If you have several albums with names like "Best of" or "Gold" or "Greatest hits" then all with the same name would appear as a single album.
To avoid this you may want to modify $loop(%album%,1) to $loop(%album%%albumartist%,1) to create more album names.