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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Robo983 on April 11, 2008, 04:30:12 pm
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I am trying to build an expression using the Album Type tag to determine how to create the folder for file renaming so that albums with multible artist go in a folder "Various Artists\Album\" rather than Artist\Album which leaves me with lots of folders with only one song in them. I eventually want to try this on the HH sync.
My expression under the Directories Rule:
If(IsEqual(AlbumType(), Multiple artists (complete), 1),Various Artists\[Album], [Artists (grouped)]\[Artist]\[Album])
Resulting ouptut
0, Various Artist\[Album], [Arists (grouped)]\[Artist]\[Album])\[Name]
So for:
Album= 1999 Grammy Nominees
Artist= Dixie Chicks
Artists (grouped)= D
Name= Wide Open Spaces
Album Type= Multiple artists (complete)
my resulting folder structure is:
\0, Various Artist\1999 Grammy Nominees, D\Dixie Chicks\1999 Grammy Nominees)\Wide Open Spaces.MP3
Notice that I even get the end ")" of the If statment just before the filename at the end. It is acting like the "If(" is getting trashed. When I take the If statement out I get the same results with out the end parenthesis after the album at the end.
Is my expression wrong or does the file renamning not handle this level of nesting?
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I always feel a little bad when I start these threads then get the answer shortly after... anyway there must be something wrong with my expression. I was able to get this working with the post from Alex at the thread below. I had to force my Album Artist to "Various Artists" for the entire album even though I was sort of using that for when more than one artist was credited on a song. I guess I could always define a user field.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=46110.0
I used the following expression and it works beautifully. Next to try it on the HH sync.
If(IsEqual(Mid([album artist (auto)]), V),Various Artists\[Album], [Artists (grouped)]\[Artist]\[Album])
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Hi Robo, it's late here so I won't write a big post, but I think the problem has to do with fields that have parentheses in them eg Multiple artists (complete)
I think the parentheses break the expression... I tried the escape character "/" but that didn't work either...
This is probably a bug, and might be fixed(?) at some stage, but is probably a bit down on their priority list :)
Have a quick read of this thread (I had the same problem): http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=44876.msg307372#msg307372 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=44876.msg307372#msg307372)
The solution there might work for you as well? Good to see you found a way around it though :)