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Hosted Forums => foobar2000 => General - (fb2k) => Topic started by: dex Otaku on 2017-11-22 07:13:43

Title: Is there a way to display %album artist% without it falling back to %artist%?
Post by: dex Otaku on 2017-11-22 07:13:43
Hey all,
I use multiple players (both hardware and software) in different situations with a large library and have spent a great deal of time conforming the tags in my entire collection to the several possible requirements of those players.

Along the way, I realised that %album artist% (not %albumartist%) falls back to displaying %artist% if the tag is not present.

The inability to display an empty %album artist% makes it impossible to tell if the tag is actually present or not except under specific circumstances (like when %artist% and %album artist% both exist and are actually different from each other).

Does anyone know of a way to force %album artist% NOT to fallback to %artist%? 
Title: Re: Is there a way to display %album artist% without it falling back to %artist%?
Post by: Case on 2017-11-22 07:21:04
The function $meta() bypasses all mappings. Use $meta(album artist).
Title: Re: Is there a way to display %album artist% without it falling back to %artist%?
Post by: dex Otaku on 2017-11-22 07:26:56
Thank you so much!  That worked perfectly.  I should RTFM more closely.   :B