Only show the artist once when the content of displayartist and albumartist is identical and both are set to be displayed.
Problem solved:
Displaying both displayartist and albumartist can be useful when they differ (individual artist vs. various artists on a compilation, artist + feat. vs. albumartist and so on), but when they are identical, it looks a bit silly to display the same content twice.
Brought benefits:
Cleaner look and saved display space.
Other application solutions:
I think Symfonium used to only display artist/albumartist/composer once when they were identical.
Additional description and context:
Iâve added 2 screenshots. In the first, showing displayartist and albumartist makes sense. In the second, it does not.
Thanks. Guess Iâll have to re-read the documentation (I noticed itâs in there). %artist%{\n%albumartist|albumartist!=artist%}
If anyone else wants to achieve the same, this works!
A downside is that you canât display artist and albumartist differently like this tho.
Iâve adjusted the topic accordingly. I think it would be a better implementation to not display lines when the content is empty. Otherwise you end up with 3 conditional lines in one that are all displayed the same, negating the new customization capabilities.
For example {by %composer%} also yields an empty line when no composer is present.
To avoid that, I can adjust the artist string further to:
With internet radios I was getting an empty string for the album field. A custom string of %album|album!=empty% properly hides it when that field is empty, but I had set the lines to 2 (at most), which I wouldâve expected would hide it when the string is empty, without needing a custom rule
Hello, I am trying to fully hide the line for âAlbum Artistsâ when it matches the âTrack Artistsâ.
I have tried both setting the string to âAdditional Artistsâ and
%albumartist|albumartist!=artist%
with a setting of â2 (At most)â line count. In both situations, the empty line still seems present when the field is empty, as evidenced by the position of the âYearâ string below it. It looks the same with both configurations.
Also, when using the custom string variation, the click action still functions even when the string is empty. This does not happen when using the âAdditional Artistsâ string. However, the Additional Artists string links to âMore informationâ, whereas Iâd like to link it to the artists displayed in the string.
My aim is for the screen to act as if that line does not exist (including in spacing) when there is no additional artists. I may have missed something for this to be possible, and would appreciate some help. I also want it to function as a clickable link to Album Artists when present, and have a maximum line value of 2.