Replacing causes case conversion

[bollemanneke]

Hi everyone, hope someone can help.

I’m trying to replace the format of my artist fields.

Currently: BPO/Karajan

What I want: BPO, Karajan

However: every time I try a replace action that replaces / with a comma and a space, I get the result: BPO/karajan.

What I am doing wrong?

[ohrenkino]

I cannot reproduce any case conversion.
Which action do you use with which parameters?
A screenshot might help even more.

[bollemanneke]

I can't do a screenshot, sorry. I went to the action menu and created a new action. I selected the field ARTIST. I asked to replace / with , . Nothing more. I tried to see if it worked with the case-sensitive option, but no.

[ohrenkino]

@bollemanneke

I can't do a screenshot, sorry.

See here:

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and I still can't reproduce it

[MotleyG]

@bollemanneke

Currently: BPO/Karajan

Perhaps in your actual existing tag the slash character is not actually the standard keyboard one.

Try a copy/paste from the actual tag with that particular example when pasting into the "Original" field for the Replace action.

[LyricsLover]

Good idea @MotleyG
Or @bollemanneke could copy the content of his ARTIST here in this Input box
https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatisit.html
and then press the "Identify"-Button

This would show if the / character is a special slash (as there are many of them).
Maybe there are even "invisible" characters?

The usual slash would look like this:

[ohrenkino]

Honestly, I doubt that replacing really changes a case even if the slash is something else.

You say, you

@bollemanneke

... went to the action menu and created a new action

did you by any chance have ticked also the sample action "Case conversion" so that that action is also carried out?

As screenshot of the Actions window would show that

[MotleyG]

@ohrenkino

Honestly, I doubt that replacing really changes a case even if the slash is something else.

This is very true, I didn't notice that case change on my first look.

What I was noting was the desired Replace was to change from "/" to ", " still ended up with "/"

@bollemanneke

Currently: BPO/Karajan
What I want: BPO, Karajan
...result: BPO/karajan

The resulting "/k" in this case versus expected ", K" is even more bizarre.

@bollemanneke A screenshot with the Extended Tags window of this file would be very helpful to provide a solution. Perhaps you have a mix of ID3 and APE tags, or your Action is mixing up one field for another?

[bollemanneke]

Thanks, my mistake. It was a long day, I hadn't switched off case conversion...

[MotleyG]

Did you resolve the issue with converting the slash to a comma and space?