Display Format Tagging Syntax

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Quote:The $ in $date terminates the first format item and applies default values for the omitted suffix and separator.

Quote:Carets are associated with format items, not with tags. Each format item can contain one or more tags. Each caret is associated with the format item that is currently being processed when the caret was encountered.

Thanks for the explanation. There is still one thing I don't quite understand. If the $ of a tag ends the current format item then I don't get how a format item can contain one or more tags since wouldn't the $ preceding the second tag terminate the first format item and effectively start a new one?

Also one thing I certainly hadn't realised was that I assume that the separator is used to separate multiple instances of that tag (format item) rather than being the separator used to separate different format items?

Otherwise it all becomes a lot clearer....linear is much easier to get your head around than recursive!

Thanks so much for the explanation
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In case it helps anyone else (and as I may have made a mistake!) here are a couple of display format strings that seem to list albums and tracks along with audio quality information:

Title.displayFormat={$Title^^^$#AudioFormat^ - ^^$#AudioData^, ^^$#AudioChannels^, ^ch^$#AudioQuality^ [^]^}

Album.displayFormat={$Album^^^$DiscSubtitle^ - ^^, $#AudioFormat^ - ^^$#AudioData^, ^^$#AudioChannels^, ^ch^$#AudioQuality^ [^]^}

For a track (Title) there will only be one instance of each format item, but for Album there may be more than one if the album contains multiple MP3 rates, or mono, stereo and multichannel, say. I haven't used separators on the Album.displayFormat as I do not mix AudioFormats, AudioChannels or AudioQuality for my albums; nor AudioData if FLAC. So the only multiples I get are multiple rates for MP3 files, which appear as "~192k~224k", say, which I am happy with. I also added these 4 #Audio tags to indexTags on the server tab (or you can add them as itemTags if you don;t need the indexing I think?)