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Topic: Title formatting: Show artist if different from album artist (Read 2138 times) previous topic - next topic
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Title formatting: Show artist if different from album artist

I was simply wondering:
is there a string one could use in order to tell foobar 'if artist is different to album artist, put artist here'?

For anybody who would like to know context, I've been moving all of my files using file operations -> move, rename, etc. and I realised it'd help me to no end if I could keep my current string (album artist\year - album [label]\d# t# - Title) but for compilations or splits have the artist name before the title. Given the quantity of music I'll be moving, it'd be impossible for me to move some things by different strings to others, so if I could do this, I could do it all in one sweep.
Thanks for reading this, and I hope there isn't something stupid I've done or something annoying!

Title formatting: Show artist if different from album artist

Reply #1 –
Use [%track artist% - ]%title%.

Please refer to the included titleformat_help.html (accessible via Preferences, Display, Title Formatting, Help) to see how it's defined.

Title formatting: Show artist if different from album artist

Reply #2 –
Try %track artist%, it does exactly what you are asking for. I'll assume the filename part of your naming scheme looks like this now:
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%discnumber% %tracknumber% - %title%

Then you would change it to this:
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%discnumber% %tracknumber% [%track artist% ]-%title%
 

Title formatting: Show artist if different from album artist

Reply #3 –
Of course! I can't think of why I didn't think of that. Thanks for all your help, though!