I have searched high and low, but cannot find an answer to what I would imagine is a common problem. I have several tags with multiple instances, Artist for example. I can have from one to 20 or more artists, each having its own tag (using \\ to separate them) This works well with my music player…

[image] pastim: ... However, if I want to change something to do with each individual Artist, such as swapping the surname from first to last (or vice versa) in one instance, there seems to be no way to do this on multiple occurrences. In my case I want to enter the Artist name naturally, with …

I have now managed to solve almost all of my issues with this, with the help of http://regex101.com/ , http://www.regular-expressions.info/ and DetlevD Firstly, what I want to do is get ArtistSort values as as follows: Take a set of Artist names, stored as separate values, such as: Trevor Pinnock…

[image] pastim: ... It would make life much easier if all non-ASCII characters were converted to ASCII in the sorted form. I know this is possible, character by character, but there are an awful lot when all European languages are included. If mp3tag had a function to do this (eg $to_ascii) it…

[image] DetlevD: ... You can try ... Mp3tag action groups for "Unicode to ASCII" ... /t/7279/1 Thanks very much. The only hassle now is that I have 9 separate fields to process every time, which is rather a lot of actions, but so be it. What I want to do is enter the basic data and then r…

[image] pastim: ... The only hassle now is that I have 9 separate fields to process every time, which is rather a lot of actions ... You may use this simple code, if it meets your needs for sorting. $regexp(%ARTIST%,'[[:unicode:]]',' ') [image] pastim: ... Is there a way of invoking one …

[image] DetlevD: You may use this simple code, if it meets your needs for sorting. $regexp(%ARTIST%,'[[:unicode:]]',' ').. I'm going to have to guess what this does, since I can't find any reference to :unicode: in my regex references. Does it take any non-ascii character (ie not a-z, A-Z, 0…

[image] pastim: I'm going to have to guess what this does, since I can't find any reference to :unicode: in my regex references. Does it take any non-ascii character (ie not a-z, A-Z, 0-9 etc) and replace it with space, or is it more subtle than that? If that is what it does then isn't what I …

[image] DetlevD: I think, Mp3tag uses the Boost.Regex machine ... http://www.boost.org/ ... and there is a character class supported ... unicode ... Any extended character whose code point is above 255 in value. DD.20140914.1618.CEST Thanks very much indeed. I now have enough to achieve w…

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Need help with regex for ARTISTSORT
Multiple value artist tag to multiple value artistsort
Automating Changes to Artist Values

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