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foobar2000 doesn't detect %album artist% MISSING

I made an autoplaylist with "%album artist% MISSING" and that doesn't show tracks with that tag missing.
Can anyone help? Thanks. Senan

foobar2000 doesn't detect %album artist% MISSING

Reply #1 –
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%album artist%
Name of the artist of the album specified track belongs to. Checks following metadata fields, in this order: “album artist”, “artist”, “composer”, “performer”.

To search for the album artist field only, use:

Code: [Select]
album artist MISSING

foobar2000 doesn't detect %album artist% MISSING

Reply #2 –
Quote from: Frank Bicking on
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%album artist%
Name of the artist of the album specified track belongs to. Checks following metadata fields, in this order: “album artist”, “artist”, “composer”, “performer”.

To search for the album artist field only, use:

Code: [Select]
album artist MISSING



Woah! I had no idea that %%'s were "groups" of fields. This kinda changes alot for me. Thanks Frank!
 

foobar2000 doesn't detect %album artist% MISSING

Reply #3 –
Quote from: Frank Bicking on
Quote
%album artist%
Name of the artist of the album specified track belongs to. Checks following metadata fields, in this order: “album artist”, “artist”, “composer”, “performer”.

To search for the album artist field only, use:

Code: [Select]
album artist MISSING


But this breaks my other code..
Code: [Select]
'$if(album artist MISSING,$rgb(7,17,105),$rgb(255,0,0))Album Artist $rgb(7,17,105)|'

It always shows "Album Artist" in red, even if it's not missing.. 

foobar2000 doesn't detect %album artist% MISSING

Reply #4 –
Queries cannot be used within title formatting.

Code: [Select]
$if($meta(album artist),... // swap your then and else parts

This is bad style though, and chances are you do not need such an indicator.

Album artist should remain empty for albums by a single artist. Take a good look at the default and suggested patterns throughout the whole program. You will not find any $if thanks to how %album artist% and other fields have been defined. Make sure to look up %artist% and %track artist% as well.

PS: Please refrain from full-quoting.

foobar2000 doesn't detect %album artist% MISSING

Reply #5 –
Quote from: sentriz on
But this breaks my other code..
Code: [Select]
'$if(album artist MISSING,$rgb(7,17,105),$rgb(255,0,0))Album Artist $rgb(7,17,105)|'

It always shows "Album Artist" in red, even if it's not missing.. 


Frank didn't elaborate but you must use $meta(album artist) if you want foobar to look for an album artist tag only.

As for that code, you've mixed querying syntax and title formatting and as you found out, it didn't work. I would do as Frank suggested above, but if changing your title formatting as he suggested would create too many difficulties for you, you should be able to insert $not($meta(album artist)) where you have "album artist MISSING" in your above code.