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jkwarras

Nov 26 2004, 10:25

Hi,

I would like to separate values in a same tag that are separated by ',' for ex.

%styles%=Adult Alternative Pop/ Rock,Alternative Pop/ Rock,Singer/ Songwriter
...

With the normal formatting

CODE

$if2(%styles%,'()')|whateveryouwant

I get this:

All music
+()
+Adult Alternative Pop/ Rock,Alternative Pop/ Rock,Singer/ Songwriter
+Alternative Pop/ Rock
+Hard Rock,Alternative Pop/ Rock,Heavy Metal,Grunge,Alternative Metal
...

And what I woudl like is this:

+()
+Adullt Alternative Pop/ Rock
+Alternative Pop/ Rock
+Alternative Metal
+Grunge
+Hard Rock
+Heavy Metal
+Singer/ Songwriter
...

But I don't know how to get this (or if it's possible) via formatting strings, can someone help me out?

Thanks a lot!

Edit: Oh! I just thought about this, can a song be displayed in multiple %styles%? Because I guess that if this sorting can be done it has to pick a value (I guess by default it will pick the first one), but I owuld like to have it under all the values on the tag...

rocketsauce

Nov 26 2004, 13:07

Don't enclose the tag name in %.

Instead of:

CODE

$if2(%styles%,'()')|whateveryouwant

just make it:

CODE

styles|whateveryouwant

As far as I can tell, this works for any tag. For example, my Album List for Genre looks like this:

CODE

genre|artist|%album%|[[%disc%.][$num(%tracknumber%,2).] ]$if2(%title%,%_filename_ext%)

By not enclosing genre and artist in %, multiple values for those tags will each appear as their own node in the tree.

Rob

desigrid

Nov 26 2004, 13:16

QUOTE(jkwarras @ Nov 26 2004, 08:25 AM)

I would like to separate values in a same tag that are separated by ',' for ex.

The method described by rocketsauce will only work if you have multiple styles tags i.e.:

styles=Adult Alternative Pop/ Rock
styles=Alternative Pop/ Rock
styles=Singer/ Songwriter

You can use Masstagger's "Split field by separator" to help automate this process.

Edit: typo.

rocketsauce

Nov 26 2004, 13:31

Right. I forgot that part.

Also, if you use the special file info box for tagging, you can use \ as a value separator.

Rob

jkwarras

Nov 26 2004, 18:25

People, thanks to all! I'll try that

jkwarras

Nov 27 2004, 06:13

I've tried what you suggested (spli field by separator) and it works, thanks again

But I have a problem with this:

QUOTE(rocketsauce @ Nov 26 2004, 11:07 AM)

Don't enclose the tag name in %.

Instead of:

CODE

$if2(%styles%,'()')|whateveryouwant

just make it:

CODE

styles|whateveryouwant

As far as I can tell, this works for any tag. For example, my Album List for Genre looks like this:

CODE

genre|artist|%album%|[[%disc%.][$num(%tracknumber%,2).] ]$if2(%title%,%_filename_ext%)

By not enclosing genre and artist in %, multiple values for those tags will each appear as their own node in the tree.

Rob

If I use

CODE

styles|whateveryouwant

I get every value for styles tag in their own node (so I have multiple values for same artist) but I don't get in the album list files without this tag. There's no '()' in the album list for those files

rocketsauce

Nov 27 2004, 15:57

QUOTE(jkwarras @ Nov 27 2004, 04:13 AM)

If I use

CODE

styles|whateveryouwant

Yeah, that is one of the problems. My "workaround" is to put dbexplorer panel in a tab and set up different views that specifically show missing tag values.

Rob

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