Display Format Tagging Syntax

[simoncn]

(18-05-2015 16:54)pzyvbv Wrote:  Hi

Final question hopefully! And thanks for your patience.

I have now read the new tag formatting section and it is a lot clearer than the old one....thank you for that.

The one "niggle" I still have is that it would appear that in your example:
Artist.displayFormat={$artist$orchestra$conductor^^^ / }

that the separator is not only used to separate different instances of the format item, e.g. using a cutdown version of my previous example say:
Album.displayFormat={$Album^^^$DiscSubtitle^ - ^^, }
where the output for an album might be:
albumname - discsubtitlea, discsubtitleb, discsubtitlec
i.e. it lists the box set title and all the albums within it in the album title
but the separator is also used between tags used in the format item, as per your example in the tag formatting section.

This would appear to be 2 different things to some extent (format item separator vs. tag list separator), but a moot point really. The main thing is that I want to be sure that I'm understand how it works.

Thanks.

I don't think I understand what you mean by "instances of the format item" as being something different from "tags used in the format item". Each format item is replaced by the values of all the tag names in the format item, with duplicates removed and separated by the separator string. I am not sure what it would mean for a format item to have multiple instances, unless these instances are its tag values.