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[zxsix]

Substituting accented characters.
MC handles these just fine, but I'm exporting artist list to another application, and it chokes on these.
Examples:  Björk, Vázquez
Is there any expression that would convert ö to o and á to a, converting them to Bjork and Vazquez?

Clean([Artist]) and Hexify([Artist]) don't do the trick.

[KingSparta]

You Could Use the find and replace option in Media Center.

Select The Files Then

Tools > Library Tools > Find And Replace.

But this would change the Library, and you would need to manually change them back if you wanted it that way.

maybe you can ask the programmer of the other program to allow this type of text.

[221bBS]

Substituting accented characters.
MC handles these just fine

MC seems to have problems when the first character is accented, I have two album artist (Éric Serra, Âme) grouped (Grouping=1) in Others. Kind of annoying.

[Matt]

MC seems to have problems when the first character is accented, I have two album artist (Éric Serra, Âme) grouped (Grouping=1) in Others. Kind of annoying.

What type of view are they being grouped in?

I used that album value and it grouped fine under that value in the default "Artists" view for example.

So where is it wrong?  It seems like doing a "make that character unaccented" would be pretty reasonable.

Thanks.

[221bBS]

What type of view are they being grouped in?

I used that album value and it grouped fine under that value in the default "Artists" view for example.

I've attached an image below. I use an expression field, first two columns, the third is the normal album artist field (all three doesn't sort correctly).

As I was writing this, I just noticed that the problems seems to be in the grouping column (other, 1, 2, etc...) in both the expression field and default Album Artist field. If I don't have anything selected there it sorts fine in the non-grouped expression field and default Album Artist field.

It seems like doing a "make that character unaccented" would be pretty reasonable.

I use MusicBrainz for all my tagging (if I find an error in my tags I go to MB to correct it) and sync with there servers a few times a years to update all my tags. I don't alter any tags that MB uses since it will be overwritten upon the next sync. I guess it would be easy enough to add a few lines in the expressions I use to replace the accented characters.

[Matt]

Well I'm thinking about making the grouping use the unaccented version of the letter, but it's slowing the search down a bit and I'm not sure of a way around that.  So I need to keep thinking for a bit.

[Matt]

I think I came up with a way to make it fast enough.  So next build:
Changed: Grouping in views ignores accents now instead of grouping them into the others grouping.

[221bBS]

Good to hear 

[221bBS]

Bit off topic, but since you're listening in...

As I've said, I use MusicBrainz for my tags. They're pretty good and I keep an eye on all my albums to make sure it doesn't get messed up.

One thing that's different about my tags is that Album Artist & Artist uses standardize names.

Example: A Little Less Conversation by Elvis vs JXL

My tags has them as Elvis Presley vs Junkie XL.

Couple days ago, I started uploading tags to your servers but stopped after a few thousand files because I didn't think people would want there artist fields messed up.

Should I keep uploading or not?