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RoderickGI:

--- Quote from: Sangie on June 29, 2020, 02:45:18 am ---It will do it one at a time which will be annoying. I want it to look for a list of conjunctions that could appear between artists.
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Correct. But you have only listed six conjunctions, so once you understand the process you can select all files in your Library and apply the fix to them all at once. That isn't a big amount of work, and once done, it is done forever. If the Find and Replace doesn't find the conjunction in the [Artist] field of a particular file, it won't make any changes, so selecting all files (or a subset of them) and applying the function won't harm files that don't have the conjunction in the [Artist] field.



--- Quote from: Sangie on June 29, 2020, 02:45:18 am ---Okay so I go to "Add Expression Column" then put in the expression? Okay that's cool. But is it editing the tags directly in the file or just changing how I see it within MC?
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No. As I said:

--- Quote from: RoderickGI on June 24, 2020, 11:55:01 pm ---Test using an expression column first, then apply to the [Artist] column.
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You edit the actual [Artist] field in a View (my preference) or the Tag Window, and enter the expression as new content for the field. MC evaluates it and updates the field. You don't use an Expression column, except for testing your expression, which is what I showed in the image. You edit the [Artist] field and type or paste in =Replace([Artist],/&/,,;) and MC updates the value in the [Artist] field, removing the "&,".

When you do this, using either method, the fields in MC are updated. If those fields are set to update tags in the actual file, as [Artist] is, then the file tags are updated as well. If there are a lot of changes it could take a while, which is why most people do it in sensible chunks of their Library.


But the Find and Replace function works fine, and is simpler, so use that once on all files in the Library for each conjunction (after testing), and you are done.

Make sure you Backup your Library before starting work.

Sangie:
So because not all artist names need to have the & removed and replaced due to groups like "Above & Beyond" and "Selena Gomez & The Scene" I decided to use smart playlists to find them then I can select the ones that apply. This has worked really well and I'm about done!

RoderickGI:
Nice!

Easy really.  ;)

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