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Gary-SwiftPostFebruary 4, 2023, 06:59
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Normal topicCopy Artist and Album to clipboard action

I have being trying to create an action that will copy the album artist and album fields (separated with a space) to the clipboard.

I have been able to do this for each individual field but I can't figure out how to combine two fields.

Any ideas?
Gary-SwiftPostFebruary 4, 2023, 07:23
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I figured it out! I knew it would be possible.

This is what my action looks like in case it helps anyone else:

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Start with copy function and save to a named var. Use the append feature to add values to this. Copy it to the clipboard.
2MR2PostFebruary 4, 2023, 09:57
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Normal topicCopy Artist and Album to clipboard action

Looks good.

FYI: When you have multiple appends or prepends to do, you can usually compress it into a single statement by using escape sequences.

Set named variable 'search' to "\[Album Artist] \[Album] \[Year]"

In Yate, escape sequences are your friends. The three fields in the statement above were inserted from the context menu's Insert Yate Field submenu
Gary-SwiftPostFebruary 6, 2023, 11:44
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Set named variable 'search' to "\[Album Artist] \[Album] \[Year]"

Very good. I've tried it this way and it works. It seems much tidier and easier to add a conditional statement to use Artist if Album Artist is empty. Yate is the Swiss army knife of apps 😀

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