Hi
I currently have 2 different actions that I perform on my tracks.
One is for albums where all tracks are by the same artist: I set the Artist and Album Artist to the same value
The other is for compilation albums: I set the Album Artist to Various Artists and Artist to the track artist.
That's how I like it!
I'm trying to figure out if I can combine my actions into 1 by adding conditionals.
I can't figure out how to test a tag value? Eg how do I check Album Artist value for Various Artists?
Cheers
James

You could check Album Artist by doing a Compare Text Test.

eg. Test if the Album Artist field is equal to "Various Artists" (Set result)

You can do the above, case insensitive and can even simply test for 'various' being contained. Follow the Compare Text Test with an 'if true'.

If you have 'Part of a Compilation' set up, you can also do a Compare Numeric Test as follows:

eg. Test if the numeric value of the Part of a Compilation field != 0 (Set result)

Actions of this type typically are run in group mode as if you are selecting multiple albums there may be differences on a per track basis. You can put a 'Forced Group Execution' as the first statement in the main action or if not appropriate run a sub-action as 'Grouped'. If you're not yet familiar with 'stepwise' and 'grouped' execution there's a help topic called 'How Actions Execute' on the main help page.

This should get you going 🙂

I would like to do sort of the opposite. I'd like to modify the existing sample action "Determine if Part of Compilation" as follows:

- if album artist field text begins with 'various' then set to part of compilation. then clear album artist field.

what should/could I add?

perfect, thanks. i'm getting the hang of this. i wrote a few actions myself, one of them at least i'd like to share. how do I do that? I couldn't find a way to PM you from your profile.