The following items are deprecated and at some point in a subsequent release will be removed:
- Deprecated escape sequences
- Deprecated escape sequences are listed as red in the Escape Sequences document
- The Import Metadata from Audio File statement
- Use Transfer Metadata as an alternative.
- The Lossy Encode As statement
- Use Re-encode as an alternative.
- The Inline Fields mode in the Exists statement
- Use the Fields in Named Variable mode instead.
- The Get Info statements's List of Action Runtime Settings with Prefix function
- The usefulness of this function is dubious. It was introduced at a time when the runtime settings were always grouped together. Being able to partition the settings into separate replacement sets eliminates the need to prefix the settings.
- The Get Info statement's List of Image Filename Extensions function
- The function now only most common subset of the supported image types.
- The Prompt for Text List R/O and Prompt for Text List Overwrite named variables
- Use of these named variables has been replaced by format codes in the Prompt for Text Formatting named variable.
- The popupEditable object key used by Prompt from Container statements
- Replaced by isPopupValue set to 2.
- Selecting Yate in a Clear User Defined Items by Source statement
- The use of the Yate item in this statement is deprecated. Selecting Yate will not remove Yate Album ID and Yate Track ID if they have been defined as custom fields. You should use the Yata Database IDs statement to remove them which always works.
- Prompt from Container statement's selectedRow Key
- Prior to Yate v6.11, the selectedRow key was incorrectly written to the Columns object as opposed to the container object. For now Yate will write the key to both locations in order not to break any existing actions ... but at some point will stop doing so. You should always read the key from the container object.
- Prompt for Text List Selection named variable
- The named variable is treated as an alias of Prompt Menu Item Reference. All occurrences will use Prompt Menu Item Reference at runtime.
- Forcing an action to run only with a particular database.
- The method of naming an action database name>>remainder of name will be dropped at some point. As an alternative, create a runtime settings set with the same name of the action. In the set create an item named db+. The value of the item is a comma separated list of database names which can run the action. This method is better as it does not require the action to be renamed and works with multiple databases.
- All AcousticBrainz functionality
- In 2022 AcousticBrainz stopped collecting data. A link to the blog post describing the reasons behind ending the project can be found here.
- The \. replacement set sequence
- The removal of trailing periods can now be specified in a rename template's advanced settings.
