I have been doing some heavy editing on my library, trying to create as homogeneous a structure as I can. Using Foobar I realized, much to my chagrin, that there are still some fields that contain multiple values by using 2 backward slashes (cannot type it for some reason here, it only shows one ba…

The answer to this is the same the one that you already got here: [image] Help Mapping Dynamic Range to iTunes EpisodeID Support Yes, as exprected. Check e.g. the definition for a column with GENRE. You will see that you have to use $meta_sep(dynamic range,\\) for Valu…

Alright, it seems I need to learn about this and why it is necessary. I guess I am going to define all my column fields this way to not miss any info entered as such. Would I need to add anything else for other characters and delimiters others may use like ; or //? Assume not as I see all the / I…

This depends a lot on what you want to achieve. If you want to get real multi-value fields that you can see as separate fields in the extended tags dialogue, then use the double backslash: $meta_sep(artist,\\) If you have a player that cannot cope with several fields of the same type but uses the…

[image] esumsea: Alright, it seems I need to learn about this and why it is necessary. I guess I am going to define all my column fields this way to not miss any info entered as such. You could load your whole collection, select all files, open the extended tags dialogue. In this dialogue …

Well I don't have to use the $meta_sep() to find fields with /, as I have defined involved people as %involvedpeople% and can see those characters in those columns EX: "Manuel Cachao, Valrela / Daniel Palacio / Lazaro Galarraga / Andy Garcia / Nelson Marquez / Luis Conte / Danilo Lozano / Richard …

[image] esumsea: BTW when you see a \ it is actually a double backslash, but for some reason, in this forum, it will not post two backward slashes, and always makes it one Perhaps this post will shed some light on how to display special characters properly in the forum: [image] …

[image] esumsea: Well I don't have to use the $meta_sep() to find fields with / Indeed. THe forward slash is just another character for MP3tag - it could b, though, that your player interprets that character as separator between entries. [image] esumsea: tried "$meta(artist,)" PRESENT or…

Thanks for the links. I will definitely check those out. [image] ohrenkino: "$meta(artist,1)" Do these work with the regular filter that you pull up by hitting F3? I tried "$meta(albumartist,1)" and $meta(albumartist,1) and no results were found even though I know there are entries in "albu…

[image] esumsea: Do these work with the regular filter Yes, "$meta(albumartist,1)" IS "SecondAlbumArtist" returns the files where the second ALBUMARTIST value is SecondAlbumArtist.

[image] esumsea: I know there are entries in "albumartist" that have more than one field. Could you double check with select all the files open the extended tags dialogue (Alt-T) and see if there really at least 2 lines with ALBUMARTIST as field names.

I must be doing something wrong. Here is a screenshot showing that there is 2 album artists: [MP3 extended panel showing 2 album artists] Here is a screenshot showing no results. I tried with and without the quotes. I also tried "SecondAlbumArtist" and SecondAlbumArtist Still no results. [MP…

Display \\ in column browser

Support

ohrenkino March 10, 2022, 5:51pm 7

Perhaps this post will shed some light on how to display special characters properly in the forum: