How to handle Artist and Albumartist

[simoncn]

(05-01-2017 15:54)aliasname Wrote:  Trying with DateVerRel={Date,AlbumVersion,ReleaseYear}
produces the error incorrect Tagname 'DAteVerRel' in option Album.DisplayFormat in property TagFormat.

I presume you are referring to DateVerRel.merge={Date,AlbumVersion,ReleaseYear} in tagValue. Assuming this is what you meant, it is probably because you haven't added DateVerRel to indexTags or itemTags.

Quote:Something I mentioned earlier ..... Errortexts are simply senseless since the only text which would have made sense would have been "are you sure you defined DateVerRel either in indexTags or itemTags?" Telling the user that there's a problem in tagFormat is simply no help at all.

There are other reasons why a tag name can be incorrect. I could change the message from "Incorrect tag name...." to "Unknown tag name...." for the specific case that the tag is not listed in indexTags or itemTags.

Quote:Combining the items using merge results in
field1, field2, field3 against field1 field2 field3 .. I do hate comma displays.

The default separator is comma space. The format string that I suggested changed this to space.

Album.displayFormat={$album^^ $field1$field2$field3^<^>^ }

Note the space before the final }.

Quote:And using the direct .DisplayFormat started throwing errors that Date is unknown to Minum.
Perhaps because of using
$Date $AlbumVersion $ReleaseYear^ <^>
against
$Date$AlbumVersion$ReleaseYear^ <^>

Yes indeed. The message would have complained about 'date '. Note the space before the final '.