Get a list of all SOLOIST of an album

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Hi all,

another strange question from myside :rolleyes: ... consider an album where a couple of soloists are present (could also be artist or any other tag field). Some tracks don't have any soloist field; others have one or more soloist. A soloist's name can appear on more than one track. An example, four tracks:

TRACK=1
ALBUM=Tabula Rasa
TITLE=Fratres
SOLOIST=Gidon Kremer
SOLOIST=Keith Jarrett

TRACK=2
ALBUM=Tabula Rasa
TITLE=Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten

TRACK=3
ALBUM=Tabula Rasa
TITLE=Fratres

TRACK=4
ALBUM=Tabula Rasa
TITLE=Tabula Rasa
SOLOIST=Alfred Schnittke
SOLOIST=Gidon Kremer
SOLOIST=Tatjana Grindenko

Now, I would like to get a list of all soloists present on that album, without dublicates. The example would led to:

Gidon Kremer, Keith Jarrett, Alfred Schnittke, Tatjana Grindenko

What I have so far, is

There I'm stucked. I don't know how to remove the dublicates and don't know how to put nice separator between the single names.

Could you help?

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Regarding removing duplicates from comma delimited string list, please read this thread ...
/t/10616/1

$put(List,$loop(%TRACK%)$meta_sep(SOLOIST,',')','$get(List)$loopend())

... collects ...
Alfred Schnittke,Gidon Kremer,Tatjana Grindenko
Keith Jarrett,Gidon Kremer
... to ...
Alfred Schnittke,Gidon Kremer,Tatjana Grindenko,Keith Jarrett,Gidon Kremer,

How to remove duplicate items, see mentioned thread.

DD.20120110.2308.CET

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Hi DetlevD,

I expected you to answer --- thank's a lot for your help and patience! However, ...

The difference is, I'm dealing with an export script ... I don't have a tag field ready that contains the list. I have it in a variable ...

One has to respect tracks without field SOLOIST. I get

Gidon Kremer,Keith Jarrett,,,Alfred Schnittke,Gidon Kremer,Tatjana Grindenko,

Using

$put(s,','$loop(%track%)$meta_sep(soloist,',')$if(%soloist%,',',%DUMMY%)$loopend())

led to

,Gidon Kremer,Keith Jarrett,Alfred Schnittke,Gidon Kremer,Tatjana Grindenko,

Now the problem. I don't know, how to come up with a solution, if possible. Using

$replace($put(s,','$loop(%track%)$meta_sep(soloist,',')$if(%soloist%,',',%DUMMY%)$loopend()),',','KOMMA')

gives

KOMMAGidon Kremer,Keith Jarrett,Alfred Schnittke,Gidon Kremer,Tatjana Grindenko,

We see, the $replace() does not touch the content of variable "s".

As expected,

$regexp($put(s,','$loop(%track%)$meta_sep(soloist,',')$if(%soloist%,',',%DUMMY%)$loopend()),'(?:^|,)([^,]*)(.*)(,\1)+(?=,|$)',',$1$2')

does nothing and leaves the list unchanged.

Sidenote, inside the export script:

$regexp(',aaa,bbb,ccc,bbb,ddd,ccc,eee,fff,GGG,ggg,iii','(?:^|,)([^,]*)(.*)(,\1)+(?=,|$)',',$1$2')

works fine and removes the second ',bbb'.

With the other regexp from the linked thread, I got error messages.

So, the question is, how to manipulate the content of a variable (a string stored in a variable)? If possible at all ...

:ph34r:

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$put, $puts, [$get] must be written on the 'highest script level'.
These functions do not work when embedded into other functions of the Mp3tag export scripting language.
Beside that I just discovered, that the functions $trim, $trimLeft, $trimRight do not work inside a $put function call.

DD.20120112.2012.CET

Edit.

As LosMintos has pointed out in his following post, my statement about the $get function was not quite right. In fact the $get function can be used within other scripting functions, what makes sense.

But the 'visibility' or 'usability' of functions within functions in the Mp3tag scripting language needs a review in general.

DD.20120112.2317.CET

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One can sum up stored values by

$put(r,$add($get(r1),$get(r2),$get(r3),$get(r4),$get(r5)))

where $get is inside $add. This works for me ...

By the way $replace($get(s), ..., ...) does not work.