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CantelloPostOctober 28, 2025, 06:33
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Normal topicActions - inserting named variable?

I am trying to copy a part of the album title to a custom grouping tag via actions. Maybe I did not get them properly but I was first trying to copy a part of the album title (complete title is e.g. "Part 01 - Title") via substring to a named variable. In a second stept I then wanted to paste the series name plus the part from the album title to the grouping tag but how would I insert the named variable there? Right-clicking brings up plenty of possible insertions but the variables sub-menu stays empty. Can I insert them manually?

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CantelloPostOctober 28, 2025, 07:04
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Sorry for posting prematurely, I managed to get it right by looking at some sample actions and did it as follows:

Substring [6, 2] of Album -> Variable 0
Append the Artist field to the TXXX GRP1 field
Append "·#" and  the Variable 0 field to the TXXX GRP1 field
2MR2PostOctober 28, 2025, 07:19
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Normal topicActions - inserting named variable?

Yep you got it.

Variable 0 is not a named variable ... it is a track variable which in this case is exactly what you wanted to use. Track variables are inserted in text by a escape sequence. eg. \v0

Track variables can be inserted from the escape menu, however, it is usually simpler to manually insert them as above.

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CantelloPostOctober 28, 2025, 10:43
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Do you have an explanation somewhere for the difference in track and named variables? At first it seemed to me that coming from windows/mp3tag, Yate is okay but less capable - the more I dive into it, it becomes apparent that it is actually the other way around. It's just that the power is sometimes a little bit hidden. 🙂
2MR2PostOctober 28, 2025, 10:56
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Yate's Help menu has an item called Yate Help which lists a bunch of topics of which Variables is one.

At any time you can do a Help>Search Yate Help and look for things. Searching for Variables gets a lot of hits. 🙂

There is also a document on the web resources page named Yate and the P Word. This covers variable usage in more detail. The examples can be downloaded from the document or via Yate>Resource Actions Installer. Search for P word; check the row and hit Install Checked Actions.

You can bookmark online documents by doing a Yate>Search Yate Help. From the leftmost panel's context menu do a Create Resource Bookmarks.
CantelloPostOctober 28, 2025, 12:31
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Thanks, especially the P-Word document was rather helpful!
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