in the Default UI there is the function that if an album artist tag is present, the artist field will be that album artist and the title field will be formatted to "title //artist" or something like that.

in the columns ui i didn't get that function running. i tried nearly everything, i even tried to mod that function so it shows it like "album artist //artist" because i thougt maybe it won't work with the title, because its another column or something like that. i also tried

but that doesn't work in 0.8.3

could somebody help me to get the artist and album artist n the columns ui? if it's possible the way it is in the default ui, it would be great, otherwise it's okay, if they are both in the artist field.

for now i have something like

but it's ugly that it shows twice the same artist, if the album artist and the track artist are the same.

i use foobar 0.8.3 on that machine, because the OS is win98se.

i would be glad if somebody could help me

The "intelligent" %track artist% and %album artist% fields were introduced in foobar2000 0.9. In 0.8.3 you have to write more code to get a similar behaviour:

thxfor your fast reply, foosion. i tried it, but all i get is an error in the artist field:

Apparently, comment processing works differently than the help file claims in 0.8.3. Try this instead:The only difference is the quotation marks around //.

great! that works^^ you are my hero:)