Hello all, I'm new here, I need help with Mp3tag for one thing: I cannot replace the \ character in any field with the Replace action at all, Mp3tag ultimately ignores that, thus leaving me unable to change it to, for instance, ";".

See e.g. here: [image] Multiple field values and replacing the double backslash \\ Howto The double backslash \\ is Mp3tag's way of visually denoting multiple values for the same field. For example, Peter Gabriel\\Kate Bush in the ARTIST field indicates that th…

How can I replace all the \\ characters at once?

Yes. For each separately named field. What have you tried so far?

I tried replacing them in the GENRE field, but to no avail. Since I have multiple genres split, I would like to change all of them to ;.

So, did you try the action "Merge duplicate fields" for GENRE?

Yeah, however it did not work as I expected

You do realize that statements like "did not work" do not really help to get better fitting suggestions. Please tell us: What did you do? What did you get? What did you expect? Best illustrated with screenshots.

OK, I retried again just now (I changed \\ to \) and it did work, however I'm not sure how to replace all \'s to ; at once, since the action above only removes double \'s.

Again: [image] ohrenkino: What did you do? What did you get? What did you expect? Or, relating to [image] D-S-N-9990: I retried again What did you try again? Which action/function? Which parameters?

Oh sorry, I tried the "merge duplicate fields" action of course, and it finally gave me the expected results (I've set the field to GENRE and "\" for the separator). Now I need to know the action to replace all \'s with ;'s at once

Cannot replace "\" or "\\" in any field with Actions

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ohrenkino June 15, 2026, 8:10pm 2

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