No composer or conductor field in tags

[TechVsLife]

I have some questions about tags:
1. Can I get last name of composer or artist to appear first? (bach, rather than Johann). probably not, so I'll have to do a search and replace.
2. Can I delete entries from the custom tag drop down list? (I made some mistakes while trying out things.)
3. For some reason, dbpoweramp seems to be changing colons to semicolons (correctly listed in windows explorer file properties, but incorrectly done in tags). e.g. "The Masterpiece Collection: Bach, Vol 2" becomes "The Masterpiece Collection; Bach, Vol. 2"
4. The year of recording appears in audio properties for the file (using windows explorer), but it's not being found by the [year] tag field, at least not in this recording. The tag example says the year should appear with what I'm using.


Right now, I'm using:
[IFVALUE]composer,[tag]composer[],[artist][] - [title][IFVALUE]conductor, - [tag]conductor[][][IFVALUE]composer, - [artist][][IFVALUE]year, - [year][]


(btw, a number of typos in tag help, including "compiltion").

[TechVsLife]

Also:
5. I tried using [encoder+]\, but then the file name is truncated (presumably because of some pathname restriction?--it may not exist with unc path creation--but you may not have a practical way to avoid the problem)

[LtData]

1. Not our call, talk to AMG or FreeDB about this.
2. No way I know of, Spoon might know something, though.
3. Colons are not allowed in filenames, hence the change to semicolons.
4. You can try [IFVALUE][tag]Year[], - [tag]Year[],[] to get the year from the tags. I think this will work, but use the "List\Rename" button to check if it works before you start converting.

[TechVsLife]

Thanks.
1. Actually, since I don't think there's a field for ComposerLastName or ComposerSortName etc. in any of the tags, I doubt anyone will provide it.
2. never mind, found it in the registry.
3. ok, should have been obvious to me.
4. That didn't work. (--it also made year disappear from the "example display.")


1. Not our call, talk to AMG or FreeDB about this.
2. No way I know of, Spoon might know something, though.
3. Colons are not allowed in filenames, hence the change to semicolons.
4. You can try [IFVALUE][tag]Year[], - [tag]Year[],[] to get the year from the tags. I think this will work, but use the "List\Rename" button to check if it works before you start converting.