Using custom tags in preformat

[thr4121]

Hi,

can you use custom tags in preformat? I have added group to the database fields. Now I wanted to use it in preformat like this:

preformat:=album:=[album] ([group])

But in the browse tree, all the albums have just the literal value ([group]) attached.

Is it somehow possible to achieve what I want?


Best regards,
thr4121

[Spoon]

Re: Using custom tags in preformat

Try:

preformat:=album:=[album] ([tag]group[])

[thr4121]

Re: Using custom tags in preformat

Thanks! That works perfectly.

Maybe you could "promote" it in the documentation (https://dbpoweramp.com/Help/dMC/Naming.htm). I looked again and it's mentioned there, but only in the context of [REPLACE], and I either overlooked it or didn't make the connection.

[thr4121]

Re: Using custom tags in preformat

Thanks! Works perfectly.

[PeterP]

Re: Using custom tags in preformat

preformat:=album:=[album][IFVALUE][tag]boxtitle[], - True, - False[]

Tested, works for me, true/false suffixed depending on boxtitle tag being present.
Also tested your other lines, all seems to work as designed, assuming relevant tags are present in your music files. Only issue I found was with:

[IFVALUE][tag]remasterdate[], [[tag]remasterdate[]][]

... where intended use of brackets around [remasterdate] appears to clash with [IFVALUE].

Note that [boxtitle] isn't going to work, only a set of predefined tags is recognized in [brackets], others need [tag]tag_name_here[].


Please note that - by design - preformat lines operate on original tags, not tags manipulated by previous preformat lines.
If you introduce boxtitle in another preformat line rather than have it in your tags, it will not be seen by following preformat lines.
If your use case clashes with this logic, I'll rethink it.