# Appending/inserting text

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/appending-inserting-text/7162
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 7, 2008, 6:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/appending-inserting-text/7162 "2008-09-07T06:37:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![pzaw](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e99b99/32.png) [@pzaw](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pzaw)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2008, 6:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/appending-inserting-text/7162/1 "2008-09-07T06:37:14Z")

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I have in Artist tag

```
    John Lennon - Imagine

```

I want to change this to

```
    John Lennon - Album: Imagine

```

How can I do this, please?

pzaw

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### Author: ![Harakiri](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/harakiri/32/142_2.png) [@Harakiri](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Harakiri)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2008, 7:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/appending-inserting-text/7162/2 "2008-09-07T07:43:06Z")

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This worked for me:

Action -\> Replace with regular expression

Field: ARTIST

Regular Expression: (\w) - (\w)

Replace Matches With: $1 - Album: $2

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Take care! ![:music:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/2ba05d1ade5eb0d15fc173be6f717dbe63890a70.gif ":music:")

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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, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/appending-inserting-text/7162/3 "2026-02-09T12:21:04Z")

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