OR / Fallback Between two metadata keys

[ghost]

The usecase is to be able to select xesam:albumArtist when it exists, and fallback to xesam:artist if it does not.

Currently I work around this using the below:

IFS='|' read -ra METADATA <<< "$(playerctl metadata --format '{{xesam:albumArtist}}|{{artist}}|{{title}}' 2>/dev/null)"

if [ "${METADATA[0]}" ]; then
	echo "${METADATA[0]} - ${METADATA[2]}"

elif [ "${METADATA[1]}" ]; then
	echo "${METADATA[1]} - ${METADATA[2]}"

fi

[acrisci]

How about a default function?

{{default(xesam:albumArtist, xesam:artist)}}

[ghost]

Yep, that'd work perfectly.