wow that's insanely complicated!
do you populate %album artist% even when it is the same as %artist%?

if not, then why not just use this:

- $replace($if2(%album artist%,%artist%),;, /)

it will push %album artist% if it exists, otherwise it will just push %artist%

I only want the script to show information in the artist field next to the tracks :) Album artist is only used in the albums header, never in the list of files!

ok i'm confused. i read the edits you made to your previous post so now i understand why you use something more complex than a simple conditional, but i'm not sure what the result would be

maybe you could post a screenshot of the three-artist album you mention as an example?

Sure!

I should mention that the bits of script I posted are not exactly polished. Rather they were made to do one thing, then modified to do something else, but it's easy to see how they could be neater so I'll get on that.

Anyways, here are a couple of albums!

First, there's the Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco De Lucia album (files have a total of 4 different artists in the artist field, each of them respectively and one for the "band") :

http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/4040/ex1a.png


Then here's a Various Artists album. You can see artist ($meta(artist,0)) shows up after the title of each track.

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/174/ex2t.png

In both of these albums, the artist shown in the header is simply [%album artist%], though if missing, foobar fetches %artist% instead.

thanks! i follow you now.

i really need to look into elplaylist, i like the group headings much better. but i have so many 'columns' set up right now, it would be a nightmare to try to code them all..

That skin looks awfully familiar tore;)

EDIT: Did you get rid of the little white crescent shadow thing on the album art? I've been wondering how to do that, it's slightly annoying...

Possibly, my elplaylist script has been robbed and modified from some theme .. Never used the theme, but stole the playlist as it were. :)

Don't understand what you mean by crescent shadow, though. Screenshot?

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/2632/crescentp.th.jpg

You can see it on both the menu and the display art.

Ahh, now I get what you mean! It took me a minute of just staring at the picture before I got it :p:

I don't have that problem, but clearly there's a picture somewhere that came with that theme which is overlapping the album art. Either you find the script and change it or you can find the file and rename it. The latter method is sloppier of course, but on the other hand it's simple and easily reversible if you know little about scripting.

Just look for picture files inside your foobar folder until you find the culprit.

working on a new playlist layout. it cleverly splits track titles and sends anything in square brackets over to the right. pretty cool if you ask me :)

http://i41.tinypic.com/2s80etu.jpg