Need help with these strings, some various artists rules Options

[aron]

i need some help making a change to my formatting. i've tried to make the changes, but i just can't seem to get them right.

my current formatting does the following:

-- if (OST) is present at the end of the directory name, the album is assumed to be an ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK.

-- if the first 3 characters of the ARTIST are not the same as the first three characters of the directory, the album is assumed to be by VARIOUS ARTISTS.

the formatting goes as follows:

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$if($strcmp($num(%tracknumber%,1),1),

$if($stricmp($right(%_directoryname%,5),'(OST)'),
$get(color_art)'Original Soundtrack',

$if($not($stricmp($left(%artist%,3),$left(%_directoryname%,3))),
$get(color_art)'Various Artists',

$get(color_art)%Artist%))
$get(color_gri)$repeat('—',100),)

what i want to do, however, is make the following exception to the VARIOUS ARTIST naming:

-- if the album is in a folder starting with "CD" or "DISC", then i want it to do the same check (match first 3 characters of dir against artist) to the directory above.

i tried this:

CODE

$if($strcmp($num(%tracknumber%,1),1),

$if($stricmp($right(%_directoryname%,5),'(OST)'),
$get(color_art)'Original Soundtrack',

$if($not($stricmp($left(%artist%,3),$left(%_directoryname%,3))),

$if($stricmp($left(%_directoryname%,2),'CD'),
$if($not($stricmp($left(%artist%,3),$left($directory(%_path%,2),3))),
$get(color_art)'Various Artists',

$if($stricmp($left(%_directoryname%,4),'disc'),
$if($not($stricmp($left(%artist%,3),$left($directory(%_path%,2),3))),

$get(color_art)'Various Artists',


$get(color_art)%artist%))))))
$get(color_gri)$repeat('—',100),)

...but it doesn't work. can anyone help me make the desired changes to the first chunk of code?

[picmixer]

The problem is that the first $if comparison for OST will override the last $if comparison for OST and "DISC".

One way to work around this is to already make an exception for the "disc" guesing in the first $if string for OST guessing.

Something like

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$if($and($stricmp($right(%_directoryname%,5),'(OST)'),$not($stricmp($left(%_directoryname%,4),'disc')))
$get(color_art)'Original Soundtrack',

should most likely work.

Also I assume you are using

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$if($strcmp($num(%tracknumber%,1),1),

for some kind of album based formatting.

You might want to look into the $select function and use that for albumbased formatting instead of $if......

Something like

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$select($min(X,%tracknumber%),

usually works quite well on album based formattings. Simply replace X by the last tracknumber you need any special formatting for.

[upNorth]

@aron: I you have a look at the start of the guessing code in my "dynamic" formatting you might find something useful. There is some code there that will adjust the directory level used to look for artist and album name, depending on the presens of a "cd" or "disc" directory.
The relevant part starts at line 190, and you can see an example of it's usage on line 250.