# "Aaliyah, Ginuwine/Ginuwine" Removing Duplicate Artist Name?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/aaliyah-ginuwine-ginuwine-removing-duplicate-artist-name/11272
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 11, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/aaliyah-ginuwine-ginuwine-removing-duplicate-artist-name/11272 "2010-12-11T19:18:38Z")
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### Author: ![sonicblue](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@sonicblue](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sonicblue)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/aaliyah-ginuwine-ginuwine-removing-duplicate-artist-name/11272/1 "2010-12-11T19:18:38Z")

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I've got a whole bunch of songs where the artist field is formatted like this.

**Aaliyah, Ginuwine/Ginuwine**

I can't figure out how to remove the **/Ginuwine** to turn it into this.

**Aaliyah, Ginuwine**

Can anyone help me?

Some curveballs..

Possible whitespace: 50 Cent, Nate Dogg/Nate Dogg

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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2010, 7:12am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/aaliyah-ginuwine-ginuwine-removing-duplicate-artist-name/11272/2 "2010-12-12T07:12:42Z")

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> [@sonicblue](#):
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> ...Aaliyah, Ginuwine/Ginuwine ... how to remove the **/Ginuwine**

Action Replace with regular expression  
Search pattern:  
`(.*)(/.*)`  
(if this does not work try: `(.*)(\/.*)`

Replace with  
$1

Try on a single track first to see whether you get the right result.

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### Author: ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2010, 12:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/aaliyah-ginuwine-ginuwine-removing-duplicate-artist-name/11272/3 "2010-12-12T12:37:49Z")

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> [@sonicblue](#):
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> ...  
> **Aaliyah, Ginuwine/Ginuwine**  
> I can't figure out how to remove the **/Ginuwine** to turn it into this.  
> **Aaliyah, Ginuwine**

Action "Guess values"  
Source format:  
%artist%  
Guessing pattern:  
%artist%/%dummy%

DD20101212.1439.CET

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### Author: ![sonicblue](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@sonicblue](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sonicblue)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/aaliyah-ginuwine-ginuwine-removing-duplicate-artist-name/11272/4 "2010-12-12T17:03:00Z")

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Thank you! Those seemed to do the trick. 🙂

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2021, 10:47am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/aaliyah-ginuwine-ginuwine-removing-duplicate-artist-name/11272/5 "2021-01-07T10:47:32Z")

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