Hi rednoah, the GUI was actually how I made my format - I probably should have mentioned that in the OP. I looked in the bindings dialog and it's showing filebot as seeing the artist (n) tag and year tag just fine, so that still hasn't helped me find a solution.

Hey all, I had a lot of trouble configuring the filebot script to properly sort my music files, and ended up having to fork the amc script from git in order to switch the music db from acoustid to id3 tags. the tags are working a lot better, and i ALMOST have everything set up the way I'd like, but ...