I am trying to use the "Tag - Filename" option to set the filenames of mp3 ID3v2 files, using this format string: $if($meta(artist,1),Various Artists,%artist%)_%album%_$num(%track%,2)_%title% but it is not recognizing when multiple artists exist. This format string is attempting to recognize whe…

Ok I think I found a workaround: $ifgreater($strstr(%artist%, / ),0,Various Artists,%artist%) This looks for a return of greater than 0 for the string search of multiple artist separator "/" with a space before and after it and if it returns true (greater than 0) it puts "Various Artists" in the A…

[image] Using single value from multivalue field General Discussion I'm trying to create an action that takes the 1st value from ARTIST and populates the ALBUMARTIST field. Right now I have: Format Value Field: ALBUMARTIST Format String: $meta(artist,0) Using this, I'm …

[image] trelain: But the formatting string "$if($meta(artist,1),Various Artists,%artist%" is not finding a second artist in the offset "1" position. It's simply missing the closing parentheses. Try $if($meta(artist,1),Various Artists,%artist%)

it does have the closing paren in the full example at the top of the post, I must have just truncated off the closing paren when pasting into the later quote, sorry: $if($meta(artist,1),Various Artists,%artist%)_%album%_$num(%track%,2)_%title% Just guessing of course but I wonder if the designati…

Interesting. You probably have only one single artist field containing multiple artists separated by the / character. In Mp3tag, real multiple values are denoted by \\ in the Tag Panel and are listed as separate entries at Alt + T. $meta(artist,1) returns the 2nd of those multiple values and does n…

Oh yes I remember now that Mp3tag does not try to recognize any internal splitting of multiple artists within the same TPE1 frame, although this is a convention for multiple artists in ID3v2 because the TPE1 frame is not supposed to be repeated. So the "/" between them is simply interpreted as data…

whoops my bad, \\ doesn't write two TPE1 frames, it uses a separator within the frame.

Determining Tag - Filename when multiple ID3v2 artists tags present

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