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[drmimosa]

Hello,

I'd like to make a new Library Field called Instrumentation for Classical Music in order to use semi-colon deliniated lists to separate instruments. I already have lots of tags in the "Instrument" tag like "Piano and Orchestra" that I'd like to change to a list in the following format "Piano;Orchestra"

Anybody have any suggestions on how to do this?

I've tried to create a calculated data field that copies Instrument to get the tags started, but the copied data disappears when I change the field from calculated data to user data.

Thanks!

[MrC]

You'll want to use a one-shot expression to assign the values from Instrument to Instrumentation (which will be a list field).  Select your files, edit the Instrumentation field, and enter the expression:

=replace([Instrument], / and/ , ;)

[drmimosa]

MrC,

This worked like a charm. I'm now imagining how much time I could have saved using the replace function in other tagging work.

Thanks for your help.

-Phil