# Artist Vs Artist to Artist Featuring Artist
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-vs-artist-to-artist-featuring-artist/16967
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 14, 2015, 5:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-vs-artist-to-artist-featuring-artist/16967 "2015-06-14T17:05:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@sadsack5000](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sadsack5000)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2015, 5:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-vs-artist-to-artist-featuring-artist/16967/1 "2015-06-14T17:05:49Z")
All,
First time poster here so please be gentle
I need some help on writing an action to move vs artists and "and" artists from the artist field into the title field inside of brackets with "Featuring". In some cases i already have a featuring artist in the title field and in others not. Please see following examples:
**Case 1** (no featuring artist present initially)
Example 1
What I have:
**Artist** : DJ Fresh vs TC
**Title** : Make U Bounce
I need:
**Artist** : DJ Fresh
**Title** : Make U Bounce (Featuring TC)
Example 2
What I have:
**Artist** : Oliver Heldens and Becky Hill
**Title** : Gecko (Overdrive)
I need:
**Artist** : Oliver Heldens
**Title** : Gecko (Overdrive) (Featuring Becky Hill)
**Case 2** (featuring artist present initially)
Example 1
What I have
**Artist** : DJ Fresh vs TC
**Title** : Make U Bounce (Featuring Little Nikki)
I need:
**Artist** : DJ Fresh vs TC
**Title** : Make U Bounce (Featuring TC & Little Nikki) \*\*note the vs artist comes first
Example 2
What I have:
**Artist** : Oliver Heldens and Becky Hill
**Title** : Gecko (Overdrive) (Featuring Bob Samson)
I need:
**Artist** : Oliver Heldens
**Title** : Gecko (Overdrive) (Featuring Becky Hill & Bob Samson) \*\*note the "and" artist comes first
I know this is a big ask, especially for a first time poster but if you guys could help me that would be great
Regards
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-vs-artist-to-artist-featuring-artist/16967/2 "2015-06-14T17:19:34Z")
I would first separate all the added artists from the only artist and put them into a user-defined field.
E.g.
Action of the type "Import value (Guess value) for ARTIST
Guessing string: %artist% vs %featartist%
Similar actions are feasible for
Guessing string: %artist% and %featartist%
once you have separated the artists, you can go along and add them to the title
Action of the type "Format value" for TITLE
Format string: %title% (featuring %featartist%)
You will have to use filters to treat the various cases separately.
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### Author:  [@sadsack5000](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sadsack5000)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2015, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-vs-artist-to-artist-featuring-artist/16967/3 "2015-06-14T17:50:02Z")
thanks for the response...
actually i only started using mp3tag about 1 hour ago so i havent learned where the filters are located. I have put together some basic actions based on other posts but havent found the filters yet.
Can you point me in the right direction please?
I'll keep looking in the meantime...
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### Author:  [@sadsack5000](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sadsack5000)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-vs-artist-to-artist-featuring-artist/16967/4 "2015-06-14T17:53:15Z")
EDIT
ok i found the filter at the bottom of the screen, what would be the command to filter artist for "and" or "vs"?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-vs-artist-to-artist-featuring-artist/16967/5 "2015-06-14T17:58:38Z")
> [@sadsack5000](#):
>
> EDIT
>
> ok i found the filter at the bottom of the screen, what would be the command to filter artist for "and" or "vs"?
%artist% HAS " vs " OR %artist% HAS " and "
or if you want to have a look at one separator alone:
%artist% HAS " vs "
and then
%artist% HAS " and "
check the exact spelling - vs. does not match vs
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### Author:  [@sadsack5000](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sadsack5000)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2015, 6:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-vs-artist-to-artist-featuring-artist/16967/6 "2015-06-14T18:07:44Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> %artist% HAS " vs " OR %artist% HAS " and "
> or if you want to have a look at one separator alone:
> %artist% HAS " vs "
> and then
> %artist% HAS " and "
>
> check the exact spelling - vs. does not match vs
OK i've managed to segregate "and" or "vs" artists into a featartist field and can run the action to put them together for the Title field however as in **Case 2** some of my Titles already have a Featuring artist.
How can i overcome this?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-vs-artist-to-artist-featuring-artist/16967/7 "2015-06-14T18:18:11Z")
> [@sadsack5000](#):
>
> OK i've managed to segregate "and" or "vs" artists into a featartist field and can run the action to put them together for the Title field however as in **Case 2** some of my Titles already have a Featuring artist.
>
> How can i overcome this?
E.g.
Artist: DJ Fresh vs TC
Title: Make U Bounce (Featuring Little Nikki)
Use a set of actions:
Format value for TITLE
Format string: %title%\_%featartist%
Which should lead to a title like this:
Make U Bounce (Featuring Little Nikki)\_TC
Now an action (simple) "Replace" for TITLE
Search string: )\_
Replace string: &
(a leading an trailing space around the &)
Which should lead to a title like this:
Make U Bounce (Featuring Little Nikki & TC
Now an action "Replace with regular expression for TITLE
Search string: $
(which is "end of field)
Replace string: )
Which should lead to
Make U Bounce (Featuring Little Nikki & TC)
So all in all the action group has 3 actions.
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2015, 10:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-vs-artist-to-artist-featuring-artist/16967/8 "2015-06-16T10:56:40Z")
Finaly I see, that I'm not the only one out there, who thinks, that "vs." is just another way of saying featuring / and, used by the music industry as a publicity stunt [and thus making a more chaos in naming / tagging o music]
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-vs-artist-to-artist-featuring-artist/16967/9 "2026-02-09T12:25:43Z")