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Topic: Use default album/track artist display style but with custom fields? (Read 2685 times) previous topic - next topic
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Use default album/track artist display style but with custom fields?

Hey Folks,

I use foobar since ages and I always managed to make it do what I want, which is having a nicely sorted music library.

I just bought an Ipod and since this stupid thing doesnt sort by album artist, I did the following:

write all %artist% (that is track artist% to a new field called %trackartist% then write all %album artist% to %artist% so that my ipod doesnt look messy.
Now, I want to reproduce Foobars old behaviour in my playlist view, which has following (relevant) default columns:

Artist/album | Title / track artist

The latter one gives the track title and then checks if %album artist% and %artist% are different and if so gives %artist%, if not, doesnt do anything.
Now of course, they are always the same, I want it to compare %album artist% and my new field %trackartist%.

Can someone tell me how to do this?
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something along the lines of:
$strcmp(s1,s2)
Performs a case-sensitive comparison of the strings s1 and s2.

or :
NOT %album artist% IS %trackartist%

maybe??

Thanks for your help and maybe this even helped some people in dealing with their ipod, after googling I found some people had this issue;)



Use default album/track artist display style but with custom fields?

Reply #1 –
No need to mess with scripting or to use wrong artist tags. Those iDevices sort by ARTISTSORTORDER and ALBUMSORTORDER if they exist, so just write Album Artist into the former field. I use the latter field to sort albums in release order by writing %date% - %album% in it.

Use default album/track artist display style but with custom fields?

Reply #2 –
assuming your artist field is never blank, i.e. you never only set the trackartist tag:
artist | title / $if($strcmp(artist,trackartist),,trackartist)
 

Use default album/track artist display style but with custom fields?

Reply #3 –
Thanks for the quick replies !

Quote from: Case on
No need to mess with scripting or to use wrong artist tags. Those iDevices sort by ARTISTSORTORDER and ALBUMSORTORDER

Wow, ok. I didnt know that! All of them do? I have a classic 5th generation one...
that of course is the best solution.


Quote from: ruebe on
artist | title / $if($strcmp(artist,trackartist),,trackartist)

Cheers for that mate, I prefer the above solution, but hey one day I'll use those lines starting with a $...