I’m trying a script to identify and tag my dsf SACD rip files and it is not working when I set extension to dsf. It works if I set FLAC so I figured it was the file extension is unrecognized by picard. I also tried %_format % and that didn’t work
$if($and($rsearch(%media%,Hybrid),$eq(%_extension%,dsf)),$set(discsubtitle,SACD))
What I’m trying to do in plain text is
if %sourcemedia% is Hybrid SACD or SACD and %discsubtitle% is empty and extension is DSF set %discsubtitle% to SACD
I don’t think the issue here is the file type, at this level Picard doesn’t care about which file type it is, %_extension% works the same.
But rather it is that you are using file variables in your script defined in Options > Scripting. File variables at best work unreliable here, because the script is executed directly after the data got loaded from MusicBrainz, and in many cases there is not yet a file available at that point.
What I would suggest: Put your script in a separate script in Options > Scripting and run it manually after the files have been matched by selecting them and using “Run Script” in the context menu.
Side note: there was some attempt to make file variables available to general scripting in the Picard 2.0 release, but it got reverted due to some bugs it introduced.
it wasn’t working that method either.
So I came up with an okay solution to check the sample rate instead with $gte since DSD files start at 2.8mhz.
My other question is what tag format does dsf files use? Because DISCSUBTITLE works and DiscSubtitle works but not discsubtitle.