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 < [email protected]> 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 > > >
