Syntax for playlist Group scheme, Album + Date ?. Options

[tagtypedisplay]

I display my music within all playlists by grouping by %album%

I would like to display/croup by "album" and "year" problem is with albums that have more than one year in the tags, like various albums, these then displayed fractured, i.e. by tracks with the same album name. very untidy and annoying.

Can someone help me with the syntax to create a way of displaying/grouping by "albums" with the "year" and to ignore the year if there are multiple years in the tags ?.

Thank you.

This post has been edited by tagtypedisplay: Apr 3 2012, 06:57

[Daeron]

You can use a lot of things as a switch (marked with purple) to toggle the date display. This one checks whether ALBUM ARTIST is 'VA'.
$if($stricmp(%album artist%,VA),%album%,%album% '('%date%')')

If you don't want to use that tag (although it would be really efficient) and you have all of your albums tagged as 'Best of ...', you can also validate that instead:
$if($stricmp($left(%album%,8),'Best of ',%album%,%album% '('%date%')')

This post has been edited by Daeron: Apr 3 2012, 15:06

[tagtypedisplay]

You can use a lot of things as a switch (marked with purple) to toggle the date display. This one checks whether ALBUM ARTIST is 'VA'.
$if($stricmp(%album artist%,VA),%album%,%album% '('%date%')')

If you don't want to use that tag (although it would be really efficient) and you have all of your albums tagged as 'Best of ...', you can also validate that instead:
$if($stricmp($left(%album%,8),'Best of ',%album%,%album% '('%date%')')

Thank you for the explanation and for giving me the correct syntax, I can now "see" how I can manipulate those two If clauses.