Move performer tag field

MusicBrainz Picard
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Ok, unfortunately the Roon player doesn’t read the “performer” tag but it uses “involvedpeople”, so I’m trying to move or rename this field but I’m having difficulties.
I tried with

$set(INVOLVEDPEOPLE,%performer%)
$delete(%performer%)

But with the “performer” tag it doesn’t work

I’m no script expert, so sorry if I’m doing something trivial wrong😅

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I see three potential issues with your script :sweat_smile:

  1. $delete expects the name of a tag but by enclosing the name with percentage signs you have passed it the value.
  2. Performer tags are multi-value variables, so you should rather use $setmulti or $copy.
  3. Most importantly, there is not a single performer tag in Picard, but one for each role, e.g. performer:guitar. So I think you would have to use a * wildcard to get all of them but this is only documented for $unset — MusicBrainz Picard v2.9alpha1 documentation. The only thing which seems to be helpful to get all performing artists is $performer — MusicBrainz Picard v2.9alpha1 documentation.

So the following code is the closest thing to which I could get, but it has a few caveats: It only manages to unset the performer tags (but doesn’t delete tags which were already written to a file) and fails to copy the roles of the involved artists. I guess this is not actually possible because of the more complex way these are mapped in different tagging formats…

$setmulti(INVOLVEDPEOPLE,$performer())
$unset(performer:*)

Which file format are you using, by the way? INVOLVEDPEOPLE looks like it could be the display name of ID3 specific tags IPLS (v2.3) or TIPL/TMCL, so this smells like a Roon tag mapping issue with MP3 files and writing a custom tag TXXX:INVOLVEDPEOPLE might not help you at all…

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I didn’t think it was that complicated😅
However they are all flac and some dsf …