# Adding space between TITLE and ARTIST

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-space-between-title-and-artist/4472
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 15, 2007, 10:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-space-between-title-and-artist/4472 "2007-02-15T10:00:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![msmp3](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3be4f8/32.png) [@msmp3](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/msmp3)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2007, 10:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-space-between-title-and-artist/4472/1 "2007-02-15T10:00:32Z")

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How do I manage to automatically add a space between the TITLE and the ARTIST field...  
I mean... I have an mp3 like this: "John Chena-Ionosphere" and I want it to become "John Chena - Ionosphere".

Thank you in advance.

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### Author: ![Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sebastian_mares/32/9285_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2007, 10:10am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-space-between-title-and-artist/4472/2 "2007-02-15T10:10:15Z")

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Not sure what you mean - do you want to generate a filename? If yes, use "%title% - %artist%" as format string in the Tag - Filename converter. Otherwise, you might want to use a replace action and replace "-" with " - ".

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### Author: ![msmp3](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3be4f8/32.png) [@msmp3](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/msmp3)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-space-between-title-and-artist/4472/3 "2007-02-15T21:14:20Z")

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I don't want to generate a filename with "%title% - %artist%".

I want to do something like this and have 2 situations:

1. The file name is John Chena-Ionosphere.mp3

2. The file name already have the "-" between 2 spaces: Markus Joyce - Mallakya.mp3  
What I want: let the file name as it is

So, I'm looking for something like an IF condition... if the "-" is already situated between spaces then don't do anything, ELSE put 2 spaces...

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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: [February 15, 2007, 10:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-space-between-title-and-artist/4472/4 "2007-02-15T22:13:58Z")

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> [@msmp3](#):
>
> ... 1. The file name is John Chena-Ionosphere.mp3
> 
> ```
> What I want: put the "-" between 2 spaces and the file name will become John Chena - Ionosphere.mp3
> 
> ```
> 
> 1. The file name already have the "-" between 2 spaces: Markus Joyce - Mallakya.mp3  
> What I want: let the file name as it is ...

There are several ways to go from within Mp3tag.  
One easy fine way is what Sebastian Mares has exposed, and i would expect you will reach your target, if you go.  
 ![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/0/06874054d681ed9ee66d21e62680dad1c87a5d6c.jpg)  
 ![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/1/1d976e5049df57f48e4c94c44d2880673cf93cbb.jpg)

DD.20070216.0014

![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/0/06874054d681ed9ee66d21e62680dad1c87a5d6c.jpg)

![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/1/1d976e5049df57f48e4c94c44d2880673cf93cbb.jpg)

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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: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-space-between-title-and-artist/4472/5 "2026-02-09T12:20:09Z")

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