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Seeking documentation for the script format used in Audacious' playlist: Song display - custom format - title string

Added by Agarthan Nephilim about 3 years ago

Hi team. First post here.

I'm having trouble finding any documentation on the scripting used in Audacious' Playlist window when displaying custom song title formats - example:
${?artist:${artist} }${?album:[ ${album} ] }${?artist:- }${?track-number:${track-number}. }${title}

If I was asking the same question for Winamp's Playlist display, I could be pointed to the following resource, which still exists online for WinAmp users:
http://www.meggamusic.co.uk/winamp/docs/help/atf/atf.htm

Can anyone point me to a similar user guide to the scripting used in Audacious' Playlist window, for showing custom Song Title strings?

Note I did have had a few goes at rolling my own before coming here, but Audacious' version seems to lack conditional statements, which I need for what I'm trying to do.
Using WinAmp's scripting (called 'Advanced Title Formatting'), you could use something like:
[%artist% - ]$if2(title,$filepart(filename))
In this example, the script includes a conditional part ($if2): every song title with valid content in its title tag has that content shown; for any which do not, the file part of the filename tag is shown instead.

If anyone can share a link to the documentation, or even an example of how to do the same thing in Audacious, it would be super!

Many thanks, Agarthan


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RE: Seeking documentation for the script format used in Audacious' playlist: Song display - custom format - title string - Added by John Lindgren about 3 years ago

I'm not sure if we have any real documentation, but here are some examples of conditionals:

${?album:TEXT} "if <album> is valid then 'TEXT' otherwise nothing"
${(empty)?album:TEXT} "if <album> is blank then 'TEXT' otherwise nothing"
${==genre,"Classical":TEXT} "if <genre> is 'Classical' then 'TEXT' otherwise nothing" (can also use !=)
${==year,1990:TEXT} "if <year> is equal to 1990 then 'TEXT' otherwise nothing" (can also use !=, <, <=, >, >=)

The most authoritative reference is probably the unit tests:
https://github.com/audacious-media-player/audacious/blob/master/src/libaudcore/tests/test.cc#L216

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