My music files are tagged with some custom tags, which for some reason aren't entirely standardized. This is probably due to some peculiarity with my MusicBrainz Picard set-up, but that is beside the point.
Anyway, when sorting by tags that should be equivalent, I would like each track to be sorted by the one tag it actually has. My approach is:
$if3(%albumartistsortorder%, %albumartistsort%) $if3(%original release date%, %date%) %album% %disc% %track%What appears to happen instead is that the sort just ignores the conditions and reads the tag fields (including the parameters) as if there were no $if3() there.
A second approach is to write my own field remappings. According to this guide, the %artist% field is actually short for
$if3($meta(artist),$meta(album artist),$meta(composer),$meta(performer))If I could define my own mappings like this, this would solve my problem. Is this possible, or what else can I do?
1 Answer
Actually, conditional statements work just fine in sort strings. However, $if3() should have its arguments separated with commas and nothing else. Using spaces caused various confusing problems. A working sort string is:
$if3(%albumartistsortorder%,%albumartistsort%,%artistsortorder%,%album artist%) $if3(%original release date%,%date%) %album% %disc% %track%This is the same string as the one in the question, with proper syntax. It also uses %artistsortorder% and %album artist% as fallback fields for where there is no sorted album artist.
