Bug#501713: picard: Should be shorthand for $if2(%albumartist%,%artist%)

[Philipp Wolfer <ph.wolfer@gmail.com>]

The usual way to handle this would be to set a variable in the script once, e.g.:

$set(_albumartist,$if2(%albumartist%,%artist%))

And then use %_albumartist% in place of the above.

If one thinks there should be a special handling of this in scripts this should be reported at https://tickets.metabrainz.org/projects/PICARD/

But to be honest I don't think there should be a special case just for this. There are a lot more commonly used scripting snippets, but adding variables for all of these does not seem very useful. There is a reason why we have the scripting to make it flexible to customize this. I could see however how there could be a plugin providing common shortcuts.

On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:08:21 +0100 Daniel Watkins <daniel@daniel-watkins.co.uk> wrote:

> Package: picard
> Version: 0.9.0-4
> Severity: wishlist
>
> When setting up my rename rules, I've used the string
> '$if2(%albumartist%,%artist%)' twice for each entry.  It seems like there should
> be a short hand for this option, to make working out what's going on easier.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages picard depends on:
> ii  libavcodec51              3:20080706-0.2 library to encode decode multimedi
> ii  libavformat52             3:20080706-0.2 ffmpeg file format library
> ii  libavutil49               3:20080706-0.2 avutil shared libraries
> ii  libc6                     2.7-14         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libdiscid0                0.1.0-1        Library for creating MusicBrainz D
> ii  libfftw3-3                3.1.2-3.1      library for computing Fast Fourier
> ii  libgcc1                   1:4.3.2-1      GCC support library
> ii  libofa0                   0.9.3-3        Library for acoustic fingerprintin
> ii  libogg0                   1.1.3-4        Ogg Bitstream Library
> ii  libraw1394-8              1.3.0-4        library for direct access to IEEE
> ii  libstdc++6                4.3.2-1        The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
> ii  libtheora0                1.0~beta3-1    The Theora Video Compression Codec
> ii  libvorbis0a               1.2.0.dfsg-3.1 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
> ii  libvorbisenc2             1.2.0.dfsg-3.1 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
> ii  python                    2.5.2-2        An interactive high-level object-o
> ii  python-ctypes             1.0.2-5        Python package to create and manip
> ii  python-mutagen            1.14-1         audio metadata editing library
> ii  python-qt4                4.4.2-4        Python bindings for Qt4
> ii  python-support            0.8.6          automated rebuilding support for P
>
> picard recommends no packages.
>
> picard suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>