# Automatically copy Artist and Album Artist

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/automatically-copy-artist-and-album-artist/58872
**Category:** Mac
**Created:** [October 23, 2022, 6:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/automatically-copy-artist-and-album-artist/58872 "2022-10-23T06:21:46Z")
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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: [October 23, 2022, 7:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/automatically-copy-artist-and-album-artist/58872/2 "2022-10-23T07:07:54Z")

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Even though an old thread, it is still the way to do it:

> [@Actions and batch-operations](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-and-batch-operations/967/15):
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> How to copy one field value to another field? Example how to copy the content of the ARTIST field to the ALBUMARTIST field: Create a [new action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions/967/2) in an existing action group or make a new action group. Action type: Format value Field: ALBUMARTIST Format string: %artist% Note: If you want to copy all possible values of a field (in case you have multiple artist fields), the internal scripting function [$meta\_sep](https://docs.mp3tag.de/scripting) can be used in the format string, e.g., $meta\_sep(artist,\\\\)

It does not happen automatically, though, you have to trigger the action. But then it will work for all selected files, even if the ARTIST is different.

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