replacing something in a field with another field

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I want to make an action so that if the album has a certain character in it (doesn't matter which) it will replace the character with the what is in the Title (%Title%). But if there is normal text in the album it leaves it as such.

i tried using replace Field-album original-# replace with-%title% but it did not work.

can anyone please help?!

2

Can't you show a concrete example please?

In general:
Create an action of the type "Format value" for ALBUM
Format string: $replace(%album%,original-#,%title%)

3

For example if the title was "Sugar (EDX Remix)" i would manually type the album in as "Sugar". but if the title was "Going Crazy" and i wanted the album to be the same, i would just enter the album as "#". then i would want to run an action that would change the album to whatever the title is, if the album is "#". but the action would leave the album as is, if i had already entered text e.g. "Sugar".

Hope this makes sense, thanks

4

Well, yes and no.

If you have empty ALBUM fields and you want to copy the title into the album field, the use a filter
album MISSING
and then create an action of the type "Format value" for ALBUM
Format string: %title%

You could modify my example to
Format string: $replace(%album%,#,%title%)

5

that does help thank you but i was wondering if you knew a way so that it would copy the title to album only when it is empty and leave it as it is when it already has an album.

6

This should be the case if you apply the filter.
And: have you tried it with already filled album fields?
As long as you do not have the search-character in the field, nothing should happen.

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Convert "Tag - Tag" ... or ... Action "Format value" Field ......: ALBUM Formatstring: $if($eql(%ALBUM%,'#'),%TITLE%,%ALBUM%)

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