macOS Dynamic Naming: Tags interpreted as literal text (brackets in folder names)

[berntm]

Hi, I'm a "Mac guy" ripping a large collection (lots of Various Artists) using an ASUS SDRW-08D2S-U on a Mac Mini. (and new to dbpoweramp

I am struggling with Dynamic Naming. Every time I try to use conditional strings like [IFCOMP] or [IFVALUE], the software creates folders with the literal names, e.g., [IFCOMP]Various Artists or [IFVALUE]album artist....

My current Path: /Volumes/Plex Media/roon music/Music.

Example of string that fails: [IFCOMP]Various Artists/[album][ELSIF][artist]/[album][END]/[track] [title]

I want a "set-and-forget" solution that puts compilations in a "Various Artists" folder and regular albums in "Artist/Album" folders without manual intervention. Is there a specific syntax for the macOS version that avoids these literal bracket folders?

[Spoon-]

[IFCOMP]Various Artists/[album][ELSIF][artist]/[album][END]/[track] [title]

There is no [ELSIF]

Use:

[IFCOMP]Various Artists[][IF!COMP][artist][]/[album]/[track] [title]

However the default naming pretty much does that, using album artist if present and ensuring the maximum length of folders is not going to cause an issue.

[MAXLENGTH]80,[IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[IFCOMP]Various Artists[][IF!COMP][artist][][][]\[MAXLENGTH]80,[album][][IFMULTI], Disc [disc][]\[MAXLENGTH]80,[track] [artist] - [title][]

You could remove artist from before title if need, but for various album CDs you would not know the artist for that track from filename.

[garym]

This is what I use as set and forget naming string. It automatically handles various artists (I call this "Compilations" in string you can replace with "Various Artists"), artists with and without "album artist", and multiple disk CDs. This is for Windows. I recall that Mac uses forward slashes rather than backslashes.

[MAXLENGTH]240,[IFCOMP]Compilations\[album][IFMULTI]\Disc [disc][]\[track] - [title] - [artist][][IF!COMP][IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[artist][]\[album][IFMULTI]\Disc [disc][]\[track] - [title][][]