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  • lahatte
    • Nov 2015
    • 11

    IFEQUALS Cannot Find Substrings?

    Hi,

    I was hoping to have a way to check the 'genre' tag for the text "Classical". Unless "Classical" is the ONLY text in the tag, ISEQUALS won't match it.

    Is there no way to find a substring, as within a multi-genre tag (i.e., Rock/Heavy metal/Grunge)?

    Thanks very much.
    Clay
  • mville
    dBpoweramp Guru
    • Dec 2008
    • 4015

    #2
    Re: IFEQUALS Cannot Find Substrings?

    In the ISEQUALS function, try replacing [genre] with [tags]genre,/[]

    ... sorry, half asleep here. Clearly the above (ISEQUALS) won't work, but the [tags]<element>,deliminator[] is the function to return multi-value tags e.g. [tags]genre,/[]
    Last edited by mville; 11-13-2015, 11:51 AM. Reason: sleeping

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    • Spoon
      Administrator
      • Apr 2002
      • 43898

      #3
      Re: IFEQUALS Cannot Find Substrings?

      I do not think it is able to work on multi items. I will mark as a issue for next release.
      Spoon
      www.dbpoweramp.com

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      • lahatte
        • Nov 2015
        • 11

        #4
        Re: IFEQUALS Cannot Find Substrings?

        Thanks very much. It would be great to be able to choose to match part of a string. Of course, too little too late for me, right?

        Clay

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        • lahatte
          • Nov 2015
          • 11

          #5
          Re: IFEQUALS Cannot Find Substrings?

          By the way, while we're mentioning the next release, are you aware that in dBpoweramp, adding album art "from Internet" just replaces the image; it doesn't add a new image, unless you choose to Paste from clipboard.

          Thanks.

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          • Spoon
            Administrator
            • Apr 2002
            • 43898

            #6
            Re: IFEQUALS Cannot Find Substrings?

            Yes this is by design.
            Spoon
            www.dbpoweramp.com

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            • lahatte
              • Nov 2015
              • 11

              #7
              Re: IFEQUALS Cannot Find Substrings?

              Really? That seems odd. There is a button for Album art, which could change the image, but the 'plus' sign should 'add' an image. Right? Maybe my post before was clear on the fact that I was referring to the 'plus' sign icon.

              Thanks.

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              • lahatte
                • Nov 2015
                • 11

                #8
                Re: IFEQUALS Cannot Find Substrings?

                Originally posted by Spoon
                I do not think it is able to work on multi items. I will mark as a issue for next release.
                Hi Spoon, perhaps a more specific function for this would be to look for individual tags in a multi-tag genre string. For example, some music could have "Classical" as one of the genres (as in "Classical; Chamber"). Another might have "Neoclassical", and I wouldn't want to match that one, only the "Classical" ones.

                Or even better, provide a means (two functions) to do both a substring match, and a sub-genre match.

                Thanks.
                Last edited by lahatte; 11-27-2015, 06:19 AM.

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