I basically need one script that does the following: Sets the albumartistsort extended tag field to be equivalent to the "Album Artist" field unless there is a "The" in which case, I would like the albumartistsort field to read "Album Artist, The". Is this possible?

To make it easier: I am pretty sure that the "The" is not necessary any more to sort better. So I would suggest that you use an action of the type "Format value" or Convert>Tag-Tag for ALBUMARTISTSORT Format string: $regexp(%albumartist%,^The ,) This simply Please watch out for artists that seem…

I don't understand what this does: $regexp(%albumartist%,^The ,)

The other problem that I have is a lot of albumartistsort fields are something like "Drake, Nick" and I would like it to be "Nick Drake. I can see how your script would solve my problem for the "The" though. But how do I solve the first problem? All my Album Artist fields are the way I want them, I…

[image] sjkiss: All my Album Artist fields are the way I want them, I just wanted to port over what is in Album Artist to albumartistsort. This is a simple Convert Tag-Tag and set Albumartistsort to be Albumartist. But why would you want these to be identical? It defeats the purpose of havin…

[image] sjkiss: I can see how your script would solve my problem for the "The" though. But how do I solve the first problem? My suggestion would copy ALBUMARTIST to ALBUMARTISTSORT in all cases and only for those with a leading "The" it would leave out that article. And in general for the pr…

My suggestion would copy ALBUMARTIST to ALBUMARTISTSORT in all cases and only for those with a leading "The" it would leave out that article How do I do that if-then construction?

[image] sjkiss: that if-then construction For what would you need such an if-then construction? The regular expression works without that. The condition is "built-in", so to say, as the regular expression returns the original string if the pattern has not been found. See the documentation …

[image] sjkiss: fields are something like "Drake, Nick" and I would like it to be "Nick Drake. It would be extremely tricky to separate the artists that have swapped names from those that actually have a comma as they consist of a list. E.g. Bell, Book and Candle, Earth, Wind and Fire Dav…

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ohrenkino November 2, 2024, 2:58pm 4

Have you tried it?
It removes any leading "The " and leaves the rest.
And as I said: if you add the trailing "The" will not make any difference for sorting.