$if(%album artist%,VA,%artist%) - [%disc%-]%tracknumber% - $if(%album artist%,%artist% - )%title%

This string is not working for me in "Rename, move or copy files".
I'd like to have a leading "VA" if the tag %album artist% exists. How can I achieve this?
Thank you for your help. I bet it is very easy!

I believe this will do it

$if(%album artist%,'VA'[-%artist%],%artist%) - [%disc%-]%tracknumber% [-%title%]

No, unfortunatelly it isn't working either.

edit:
It seems as if $if(%album artist%,'VA'[-%artist%],%artist%) doesn't evaluate to false, if the tag %album artist% is not present.
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?ti...ormat_Reference was no help for me

I've just changed it a bit try again,i don't have albums with various artists so cannot test it

$ifequal($meta(album artist),$meta(artist),%artist%,'VA-'%artist%) (Should work now)

your second $if statement doesnt have an else statement, did you mean to use $if2?

try this, see if it works:

$if($meta(album artist),VA,$meta(artist)) - [%disc%-]%tracknumber% - $if2($meta(album artist),$meta(artist) - )%title%

It's not working completly, since the third meta finds the artist-tag:

%album artist%

Defined as $if3($meta(album artist),$meta(artist),$meta(composer),$meta(performer)).

(quote from wiki)

Isn't it possible to directly check the existence of a tag?

Use $meta_test(artist) to check for the presence of the artist tag, and $meta(artist) to access its value.

$if(%track artist%,VA,%artist%) - [%disc%-]%tracknumber% - $if(%track artist%,%artist% - )%title%

test it

spaces + % = wont work.

if it has spaces, I've found I have to use $meta_test() and $meta()

My main problem at the moment is actually finding a place for the album (album, date, genre) when you use your primary column to display track artists, if existant >.<

Currently I'm using a botched solution that looks ok.

E: Ok can you set using something like $meta()?

Field names with spaces work just fine here. Where do you have problems with that?

Pretty much everywhere. If statements :/

Are you sure it is not a problem with remapped fields?

Thank you foosion! You gave the missing hint!
Isn't $meta_test(TAG) missleading? Since $meta(TAG) would return the "second match", if the first remapping doesn't match.
So I thought, that $meta_test(album artist) would also return TRUE, if %album artist% is inexistent, however %artist% exists.
Would renaming it to $TAG_test() make sense?

Moreover we maybe should edit the wiki to "1 (aquivilent to TRUE)" (for those, who don't know any programming).

Finally this is the TAGZ-script which seems to do it's job:

$if($meta_test(album artist),VA,%artist%) - [%disc%-][%tracknumber% - ]$if($meta_test(album artist),%artist% - )%title%

$meta(name) does not use remapping

The string "1" is not equivalent to true in titleformatting scripts. If the field exists, $meta_test returns the string value "1" and the boolean value true, but only the boolean value counts for boolean function and control flow constructs.

foosion, oh, I didn't know that! I always thought, that methods are capable of giving back one variable (may be this is different in C). And if not there could be 1 returned and treated as TRUE... So it's ok for me either way.
But as you see I had some problems myself fiddling this out with the wiki