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Title: Defining a custom "featuring" tag that will auto-populate for everything
Post by: Reggie10 on February 23, 2020, 11:45:39 PM
Hi everyone - having a lot of fun just diving in and tinkering with MB but have been stuck on something for awhile and am turning to the community for help.

I'd like to define a custom tag ("Featuring") that will display guest artists. I have my FLAC tags set up as follows:

Album artist: Nas
Album: Illmatic
Artist: Nas feat. AZ
Song: Life's a Bitch

I'd like to run a script for my custom tag that will print whatever comes after "feat. " in the Artist field, so that in this example, AZ would be listed in his own column under Featuring. I would then like this field to automatically populate for everything I add to the library without my having to do anything.

Is this possible? I'd like to do it this way so as not to mess around with the way I already have things intrinsically tagged.
Title: Re: Defining a custom tag that will auto-populate for everything
Post by: psychoadept on February 24, 2020, 01:24:09 AM
Hi, welcome to the forum!

The Additional Tagging and Reporting tools plugin can do this for you, although proceed with caution. Because it's very powerful it's also easy to mess up your collection with it.

 And there's already a tag for this, called "Guest Artist".
Title: Re: Defining a custom tag that will auto-populate for everything
Post by: boroda on February 24, 2020, 05:36:12 AM
"Extract guest artist..." preset can extract featuring artist from *track title*.  copy this preset and change source tag from "title" to "artist" in preset copy. 
Title: Re: Defining a custom tag that will auto-populate for everything
Post by: boroda on February 24, 2020, 07:33:30 AM
i've created new ASR preset "Extract featuring artists from tag 'Displayed artist' and add them to the (Guest) 'Artist' tag..."
Title: Re: Defining a custom tag that will auto-populate for everything
Post by: Reggie10 on February 25, 2020, 04:03:37 AM
Wow, thanks! I did a little bit of tweaking and got it working exactly how I envisioned. Could you tell me how to get this to automatically apply to everything currently in my library, and everything I'll add in the future?
Title: Re: Defining a custom tag that will auto-populate for everything
Post by: Reggie10 on February 25, 2020, 04:11:16 AM
If you're curious, this is how I tweaked your preset: https://imgur.com/01deR8s

The result is that the Featuring tag populates while leaving my Artist tag completely unaltered, like so:

(https://i.imgur.com/OoWrAiT.png)

As you can see though, only the song "Set Me Free" has the field populated (the song I used as my guinea pig track while I was playing with the preset). Would love for this to apply to my whole library.
Title: Re: Defining a custom tag that will auto-populate for everything
Post by: Reggie10 on February 25, 2020, 05:14:21 AM
I spoke too soon. I closed MusicBee for about half an hour, then opened it back up to this:

(https://i.imgur.com/ccpQxzl.png)

Looks like most of the values in the Featured column are repeating ad infinitum while a few tracks did not populate the column at all. Pretty stumped at this point.
Title: Re: Defining a custom tag that will auto-populate for everything
Post by: boroda on February 25, 2020, 07:39:32 AM
untick (+)  checkbox in step 2 in preset editor. also, untick checkbox next to <custom text 2>, which you are not using anymore.

to apply preset to all tracks in your library select all tracks (ctrl+A), then apply preset. to autoapply this preset to new tracks in future tick preset in main asr window.
Title: Re: Defining a custom tag that will auto-populate for everything
Post by: Reggie10 on February 26, 2020, 02:59:38 AM
THANK YOU  :)  Looks great now.
Title: Re: Defining a custom tag that will auto-populate for everything
Post by: Zak on February 26, 2020, 07:07:29 AM
You could have also just used this virtual tag which would work on all tracks without having to change any tag values at all:

Code
$Split(<Artist>," feat. ",2)
Title: Re: Defining a custom tag that will auto-populate for everything
Post by: boroda on February 26, 2020, 07:25:57 AM
yes, it's much easier.
Title: Re: Defining a custom tag that will auto-populate for everything
Post by: Reggie10 on February 27, 2020, 01:55:15 AM
Well I have a long history of making things more complicated than they need to be and I suppose this is just another example of that.

Is there documentation somewhere of how the type of code used in Zak's post works? Would love to learn it and do some tinkering with virtual tags at some point.
Title: Re: Defining a custom tag that will auto-populate for everything
Post by: phred on February 27, 2020, 02:10:21 AM
Quote from: Reggie10 on February 27, 2020, 01:55:15 AM
Well I have a long history of making things more complicated than they need to be and I suppose this is just another example of that.

Is there documentation somewhere of how the type of code used in Zak's post works? Would love to learn it and do some tinkering with virtual tags at some point.
This was current as of v3.1, so there may be new functions that aren't in the article.
https://musicbee.fandom.com/wiki/Functions
Title: Re: Defining a custom tag that will auto-populate for everything
Post by: Reggie10 on February 27, 2020, 03:32:46 AM
Nice, thanks.

Here's the custom tag I put together that extracts my featured artists and also handles compilations:

Code
$If($Contains(<Album Artist>,"Various artists")="T",<Artist>,$Split(<Artist>," feat. ",2))

This works if your Artist tag is formatted as I described in my original post above. For compilations, I simply list the Album Artist as "Various artists" and the Artist as whoever is actually on the track. Works great.

Thanks again to everyone who helped me out here. 
Title: Re: Defining a custom "featuring" tag that will auto-populate for everything
Post by: Reggie10 on February 27, 2020, 03:36:03 AM
Look at this work of art.

(https://i.imgur.com/51kC9EW.png)