Identifying standalone recording in a script

MusicBrainz Picard
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Is there a way to identify a standalone recording in a Picard script?
Couldn’t find anything in the docs.

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A standalone recording will have a recording MBID but will not have a track MBID, so this is probably the easiest way to identify them in scripts. Something like (untested):

$set(mytag,$if(%musicbrainz_trackid%,normal,standalone))

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I actually use $if($eq(%album%,[non-album tracks]),...) for identifying. But you need to be careful, [non-album tracks] is just the default and can be customized in Options > Metadata. Also some might prefer to completely unset the album tag for standalone recordings.

Generally I think @draconx approach is better and less likely to break.

We should have a variable for identifying standalone recordings.

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