grenavitar
4th May 2002, 18:41
for the longest time i did not know that i could format how the ID3 tags were displayed when i waas finally told i was so very happy since i had not known about it and was hoping to request it. well i like my tags displayed as Artist - track# - Title. so i did that, adding the '-' in between. it worked well except for on tracks where the track number is not filled in, which it is not on any of my singles, i only use that field for full albums. so when the track field it shows up very uglily. for instance it would be like this. Nirvana - - Smells like teen spirit. i am hoping for a way that it will be smart enough that when there is no track number present it will erase the 2nd '-' the only was i can see this being done is with some uncommon character that groups them so that if %a (the command for track number) isn't filled in, then the '-' will be deleted.
here is what i mean using the '?' key as the grouping symbol since that is rarely used as a constant in an ID3 tag (in fact there are very few constants no one uses anything but dashes and (), [], {}, etc for the most part).
for those who don't know %1 = artist, %a = track#, %2 = Title
right now with the track field left blank:
%1 - %a - %2 = Nirvana - - Smells Like Teen Spirit
what i want with track number still blank.
%1 - ?%a - ?%2 = Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
*sughs* i wish i was better at explaining things, hope at least one of you will understand and put it in better words
here is what i mean using the '?' key as the grouping symbol since that is rarely used as a constant in an ID3 tag (in fact there are very few constants no one uses anything but dashes and (), [], {}, etc for the most part).
for those who don't know %1 = artist, %a = track#, %2 = Title
right now with the track field left blank:
%1 - %a - %2 = Nirvana - - Smells Like Teen Spirit
what i want with track number still blank.
%1 - ?%a - ?%2 = Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
*sughs* i wish i was better at explaining things, hope at least one of you will understand and put it in better words