Displaying Albums where Artist is AlbumArtist and also Trackartist

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(17-09-2022 09:10)pask Wrote:  Interesting approach. Looks exactly what I'm looking for, browsing my library by AlbumArtist (or similar tag), and get all albums they are tagged on (AlbumArtist or TrackArtist)
I Don't know how I can get a script to generate this list. It seems too crazy to manually write it with 1200 TrackArtist unfortunately.

Hi pask,

Do you have 1200 AlbumArtist values, as that's the list you need to generate not Track Artist.

If you use Mp3tag you could load your collection up, then run an export script with:

Code:

$ filename(D:\downloads\tagUpdate.txt,utf-16)
$ loop(%albumartist%,1)@ARTIST=%albumartist%
+ARTISTALL=%albumartist%
$ loopend()

NOTE: I've had to add a space after the $ in the above code in order for it to submit, so you'll need to remove those.
Obviously change the location to wherever you want.

If not Mp3Tag, I could probably do it in foobar, or maybe you could just generate it from your music folder structure.

Might be worth trying it for a handful of AlbumArtists before you delve any deeper just to make sure it's what you want.

Just in case you don't know (as you've been saying "Artist (Album Arist)"), the "Artist" index uses the AlbumArtist tag by default, but will use the Artist tag where there are missing AlbumArtist values. I always have AlbumArtist values populated so it wouldn't make any difference, but it might be worth using the AlbumArtist index instead just so it's explicit (you can always rename it to Artist if you want).

EDIT: Just reread your post and you stated you're on a mac....Do you have a folder structure that includes AlbumArtist, and are you capable on the command line? I don't know anything about the mac to know what software is on there.