How to eliminate double entry in a field?

[evergreen1]

sometimes i get records with double entry in some fields. for example in the artist field it may be like this....jackson//jackson

i select the records and press alt T. and edit the tag items by deleting the extra entries. if i select multiple records nothing is being done. i have to select records one by one and make the editing. so if i have double entry in five records i have to do it five times. is it possible to select more than one records and make the editing by pressing ALT T ?

[Florian]

You can remove the field and set it to the desired value (e.g., Jackson).

[evergreen1]

You can remove the field and set it to the desired value (e.g., Jackson).

but the suggestion is applicable if i have a particular album of a particular artist. if i have an album which contains various artists, and i do have the artist name twice as in my first post, how is it possible to delete and enter the new one for all artists? in that case i have to take each record seperately and to edit the field. by presssing ALT+T i can edit the entries of a single record. i f i select multiple records mp3tag doesn't do anything. i want help on this issue. thanks and have a nice day.

[DetlevD]

@evergreen1

... i do have the artist name twice as in my first post, how is it possible to delete and enter the new one for all artists? ...

Given is a tag field ARTIST with content "Artist##Artist". You want to have the content to be "Artist".

You can apply an action "Format value" using the $regexp() function or an action "Replace using Regular Expression".

Actiontype 5: Format tag field
Field: ARTIST
Formatstring: $regexp(%ARTIST%,'^(.+?)##\1$','$1')

From: Artist##Artist
To: Artist

The exercise how to modify this example to use it with other separator characters is left to you.

DD.20100308.1220.CET

[evergreen1]

Given is a tag field ARTIST with content "Artist##Artist". You want to have the content to be "Artist".

You can apply an action "Format value" using the $regexp() function or an action "Replace using Regular Expression".

Actiontype 5: Format tag field
Field: ARTIST
Formatstring: $regexp(%ARTIST%,'^(.+?)##\1$','$1')

From: Artist##Artist
To: Artist

The exercise how to modify this example to use it with other separator characters is left to you.

DD.20100308.1220.CET

unfortunately it doesn;t work.
i have artist\\artist.
i applied as per instructions-format value
field aritst
format string as------->$regexp(%ARTIST%,'^(.+?)\\ \\1$','$1')
nothing is done!

[dano]

There's an action "Remove duplicate fields"

Or change the string from DetlevD to
$regexp($meta_sep(ARTIST,##),'^(.+?)##\1$','$1')

[evergreen1]

dear dano,

sorry to say that the regexp doesn't work. my seperator is slash.(artist\\artist title\\title etc) i replaced it and tried but the result was in the negative. since my seperator is backslash and there is a backslash in regexp itself. so there will be five backslashes and i doubt whether prog will recognise them properly. i tried with a space between two backslashes but find no improvement.

but to my pleasure the first option (remove dup fields)suggested by dano does work.

[DetlevD]

... my seperator is forwardslash.(artist\\artist title\\title etc) ...

Try to learn how to differentiate between "forward slash" and "back slash" and how to use those characters as separators in Mp3tag.

German:
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...;oldid=69929904
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...;oldid=71439789

English:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=349319073
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=349020884

DD.20100312.1201.CET

[evergreen1]

thanks to point out my mistake. i have backslash as seperator.