How to use $delprefix for multiple artists?

MusicBrainz Picard
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Hello,

I currently use the following custom tagging script…

$setmulti(artistssort,$delprefix(%artists%,The))

This works fine for most occasions, but it clearly doesn’t loop through each artist - so a release by The Six Parts Seven & The Black Keys will be tagged as…

Six Parts Seven; The Black Keys

I am not hugely familiar with the scripting language but it looks like i maybe need to use $foreach in my script - i’m just not sure how to use this function in combination with the above script so that I end up removing ‘The’ prefix from all artists to give the following result…

Six Parts Seven; Black Keys

Could anyone give me a gentle nudge?!
Cheers!

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This is how I’d do it:
$setmulti(artistssort,$map(%artistssort%,$delprefix(%_loop_value%,The)))

Just in case you don’t know, there is a plural artistsort variable available (%_artists_sort%).

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Thanks very much, but sadly that doesn’t work as artistssort is a custom tag so there is nothing to map so it produces no tag at all.

I then tried changing the script to use the variable _artists_sort that you suggested as per below…

$setmulti(artistssort,$map(%_artists_sort%,$delprefix(%_loop_value%,The)))

But this tag has already moved the ‘The’ to the end so it’s no longer a prefix but a suffix!!

I might have to rethink my tagging structure!

Cheers ,

James

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Sorry that was the code I used for testing (couldn’t find an album with multiple artists beginning with “The”), just use %artists%
$setmulti(artistssort,$map(%artists%,$delprefix(%_loop_value%,The)))

EDIT: I know LMS supports artistssort but I don’t think many systems do.

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Yes tried that too but that actually strips the “The” from the Artists tag too, not just the artistsort tag

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Does it! I’ll try it out, in the meantime:

$setmulti(artistssort,%artists%)
$setmulti(artistssort,$map(%artistssort%,$delprefix(%_loop_value%,The)))

EDIT: I’ve just tested the code and it doesn’t strip it from %artists%

$setmulti(artistssort,$map(%artists%,$delprefix(%_loop_value%,The)))

Hmmm. It does if I set it manually:

$setmulti(artists,The Band; The Beatles)
$setmulti(artistssort,$map(%artists%,$delprefix(%_loop_value%,The)))
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weirdly it does for me - ive turned off all other scripts and running that code tries to adjust both the Artists tag and the artistssort tag. maybe i need to walk away for a bit!

cheers for the help

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It looks like the behaviour is slightly different on Picard v2 so probably best to use:

$setmulti(artistssort,%artists%)
$setmulti(artistssort,$map(%artistssort%,$delprefix(%_loop_value%,The)))
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ooh wait this might be it!

sorry didn’t think to mention what version i was on - are you using picard version 3?

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Yes I’ve moved to v3. I have a pretty simple workflow (only a couple of plug-ins) and it’s been working well for me.

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I’ve not tried it yet, so i need to read up on the changes as think it’s due for release soon!

Cheers for your help - that last script is working great thanks