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Author Topic: album rules: 'assorted' is gone, now 'multiple artist'? Help with an expression.  (Read 1309 times)

Fex

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For decades I had a rename rule that has worked fine up to today.  I have (so far) relied on the checkbox 'Assorted' for [Artist] on multi-artist albums' to assign multi-artist albums.

Now the rule is gone with the checkbox. It's now called 'Multiple artist'.

Is it just me? What to do to correct this?

I would like to have the following path like before:
d:\media\audio\A\Assorted\60s Music Revolution\01 - Good Vibrations.mp3

Thanks for your hints.
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Fex

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Re: album rules: 'assorted' is gone, now 'multiple artist'?
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2013, 06:14:24 am »

I crawled through the forum for some time and found a solution for me, works wonderful.

Here I found the first hint, marko is a genius:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=60510.0
Works perfect for me.

Then I found an improved version here, MrC is the creator:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=72309.0
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Regex([Artist], /#^(?:(?:the|an|a) +)?(.)#/,-1)if(Compare(1[R1], >=, 10), 0 - 9, [R1])

Now I wonder how to implement the checks for Multiple Artists to place any found under (Various Artists) into the improved version?

Thanks for help.





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icstm

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thanks for posting your progress to your own thread, I am sure it will help someone.

Do you not use the Album Artist field?
I assign "Various Artists" when they are not the same.
If it is a album that features some guest artists, the album artist I assign to the main artist and the track artists can containt more details about the guests.
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Fex

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Yes, I use the 'Album Artist' and 'Album Artist (auto)' fields.

When I import tracks, they are both automatic filled as '(Multiple Artists)'. So it would be an extra step to rename them each time I import a sampler?
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You can blame me and my penchant for symmetry I suppose.

I bawked in MC13, and forwarded the suggestion again.

You can create auto-import rules to "correct" this if you want.  Since this thread is so old, please reply if you want help.
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