The latest development build 3.31k (2025-11-07) NEW: added function SayFormat to Web Sources Framework. This new feature now allows the use of (probably) all of the funtions documented in Scripting Functions – Mp3tag Documentation even in websource scripts. Here are a few examples for deduplicat…

[image] yorickausyps: Perhaps it is possible to use the input buffer only if it actually gets refered by sayformat instance in question. Basically, SayFormat would work like SayRest (plus format features) if %_current% is referenced in the format string. And it would work like Say (plus forma…

Thank you for the examples! I plan to use it for capitalizing lowercase strings provided by an API, i.e., OutputTo "LANGUAGE" json_select "language" SayFormat "$caps(%_current%)" 1 Also trivial, but not so easy to do correctly before. I know that @rboss used an amazing workaround, but this only w…

I’ve tried using it to combine multiple fields like DESCRIPTION, SUBTITLE etc. into a longer description. The new command also allows inserting special characters like newlines using $char(). I’ve went from: OutputTo "Temp_PodcastDesc" IfOutput "Subtitle" SayOutput "Subtitle" Set "SPACE…

[image] Florian: I know that @rboss used an amazing workaround Actually, I had come up with an even better workaround; but SayFormat will be a game changer going forward. I can find use for most of the examples shown above in my scripting. [image] yorickausyps: and creative programmers …

Until now it was impossible to do arithmetic calculations in websource scripts, but with sayformat we now have such functions at hand. So if I want to know the length of an album, i first have to calculate the length of its songs, that are given as "minutes:seconds", in seconds and after this I can …

Can confirm: set "String" "hello world" outputto "Test1" sayformat "$caps(hello world)" outputto "Test2" sayformat "$caps(%string%)" set "Function3" "$caps(hello world)" outputto "Test3" sayformat "%function3%" set "Function4" "$caps(%string%)" outputto "Test4" sayformat "%function4%" set …

[image] yorickausyps: The placeholders %output% buffer variables are only working with simple strings and not if they itself contain a scripting function. I had hoped and expected that this would work with function calls. Is this a bug or a feature? It's unfortunately not intended to use as …

Thank you for this clarification.

[image] Florian: SayFormat uses scripting functions in the same way as other parts of Mp3tag and therefore does not support evaluating placeholders or functions within placeholder contents. After now knowing this, I tried the following script to to calculate the length of an album from the le…

[image] yorickausyps: This astonished me, because sayformat does not use the input buffer. It would be very nice if this side effect could be avoided. It uses the input buffer and makes it available to %_current%. I've implemented it like this to allow for things like OutputTo "LANGUAGE" jso…

What I actually meant with [image] yorickausyps: This astonished me, because sayformat does not use the input buffer. It would be very nice if this side effect could be avoided. is, that in my example case sayformat did not use the input buffer because it did not refer to the buffer %_curren…

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