Hello
I'm trying to create a virtual tag that combines the album artist with the album name (for reorganizing my files). But sometimes the name of the artist is already in the album name (e.g. 'Shania Twain - Greatest hits') and in that case I don't want to repeat the name. So I've been trying to create a tag that checks if the name of the album starts with the name in the 'album artist' field.
So at first I tried
$left(<Album>,$len(<Album Artist>)) but that resulted in a
FAIL @ " Artist>)).
After some testing I came to the conclusion that the $left function doesn't accept another function as second parameter.
So I tried with
$RxMatch(<Album>,"^<Album Artist>") but that never gave a match. And when I try
$RxMatch(<Album>,"^"<Album Artist>) I get another
FAIL @ "m Artist>.
And if I do a
$RxReplace(<Album>,^<Album Artist>,"MATCH") (just to test), it adds 'MATCH' in front of every title so it seams to match everything.
So now I'm wondering: Am I doing something wrong or does MusicBee just doesn't accept other functions or fields for the second, third... parameter?
If so, are there any plans to change that?
In the mean time, does somebody know a workaround. Basically I want
'Shania Twain' + 'Shania Twain - Greatest hits' to give ''Shania Twain - Greatest hits'
and
'Bryan Adams' + 'The best of me' to give 'Bryan Adams - The best of me'
Is there somewhere where I can find a complete list of functions? I've found
this page on the forum but it is a little outdated and in MusicBee itself there also seem functions to be missing from the dropdown (e.g. $and and $or)
Any help is appreciated.