# Change Artist Name from "Bandname, The to "The Bandname"

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-artist-name-from-bandname-the-to-the-bandname/61872>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [August 20, 2023, 12:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-artist-name-from-bandname-the-to-the-bandname/61872 "2023-08-20T12:01:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![NuclearMike](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@NuclearMike](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/NuclearMike)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2023, 12:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-artist-name-from-bandname-the-to-the-bandname/61872/1 "2023-08-20T12:01:44Z")

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Hi. I'm a longtime user of MP3Tag but have never done a deep dive into the advanced features. I have a huge library and have ripped Album Artist as "Bandname, The" but would now like to change that to "The Bandname". Manually editing every entry in the library is daunting. Is there a quicker meth0d to auto mate this?

Thanks in advance  
Mike

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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:** [August 20, 2023, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-artist-name-from-bandname-the-to-the-bandname/61872/2 "2023-08-20T12:08:23Z")

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Tryp an action of the type "Replace with regular expression" for ALBUMARTIST  
Search string: `(.*), The`  
Replace with: `The $1`

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**Author:** ![NuclearMike](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@NuclearMike](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/NuclearMike)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2023, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-artist-name-from-bandname-the-to-the-bandname/61872/3 "2023-08-20T12:24:58Z")

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Thank you! This worked perfectly.

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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:** [September 19, 2023, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-artist-name-from-bandname-the-to-the-bandname/61872/5 "2023-09-19T12:28:01Z")

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