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Topic: CUI filter—show compilations of chosen artist w/o adding 1off artists? (Read 1922 times) previous topic - next topic
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CUI filter—show compilations of chosen artist w/o adding 1off artists?

Hi, I have a very large, well tagged music library and am trying to improve my user experience.

Basically, all my mp3s have a blank %album artist% meta value unless it is a multi-artist compilation, in which case I use "(Various Artist)" in the %album artist% meta value.  Then the %artist% value is used for the track artist in those compilations.

Therefore, in my Artist filter I use
Code: [Select]
$swapprefix(%album artist%,the)
as to avoid having a bunch of artists with only 1 song of so.

I would like to make one change but am having problems coding it.

Basically, I want to be able have it so that when i click an artist in the filter, if they have a song on a compilation, the album is in the playlist view.  However, I do not want the hundreds of one off artists in the filter view.

Take this example:
Artist X & Y are in compilation A

I have 3 albums by X but zero by Y

X passes the
Code: [Select]
$swapprefix(%album artist%,the)
filter so you see X's name in the filter list
but you don't see Y in the filter list, because they only have a song in A, a compilation

Click on X and it shows 3 albums, but not album A, because of how the filter works

How do i get album A on the list of X?  without also also adding artist Y to the Artists list
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I thought
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$if($meta(album artist),$swapprefix(%album artist%,the),$swapprefix(%artist%,the))
would work, but nope

CUI filter—show compilations of chosen artist w/o adding 1off artists?

Reply #1 –
someone? please?

CUI filter—show compilations of chosen artist w/o adding 1off artists?

Reply #2 –
I'd try adding a $strchr with the meta, because you want to search for files containing "the" in that metafield. Then the if function could include and execute the else option. I am still a novice at TF, but to me it looks your code will not work for exactly that reason.

CUI filter—show compilations of chosen artist w/o adding 1off artists?

Reply #3 –
use 2 filters and configure the first one with something like this

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$if2($meta(album artist),<albums>)


then have a 2nd filter configured to show just the artist. then when you select <albums>, your 2nd filter won't contain any of the compilation albums.