# Changing "The Beatles" to "Beatles, The"

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/changing-the-beatles-to-beatles-the/18473
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [November 30, 2016, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/changing-the-beatles-to-beatles-the/18473 "2016-11-30T12:51:18Z")
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### Author: ![Silver\_Surfer](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/7993a0/32.png) [@Silver\_Surfer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Silver_Surfer)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/changing-the-beatles-to-beatles-the/18473/1 "2016-11-30T12:51:18Z")

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The title says it all. Apart from my spelling mistake. ![:huh:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/f15ee73c0fd9ec3b0db7481f0558638f8ee224ce.gif ":huh:")

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/changing-the-beatles-to-beatles-the/18473/2 "2016-11-30T13:47:17Z")

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You can use an action "Replace with Regular Expression" for that, where the [two topics linked here](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/521/14) explain which regular expressions to use.

Kind regards  
– Florian

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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: [December 1, 2016, 7:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/changing-the-beatles-to-beatles-the/18473/3 "2016-12-01T07:37:19Z")

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> [@Silver Surfer](#):
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> The title says it all. Apart from my spelling mistake. ![:huh:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/f15ee73c0fd9ec3b0db7481f0558638f8ee224ce.gif ":huh:")

I am still not sure if putting of the word "the" to the end is a good idea.  
My favourite example for this is "The The".  
And doesn't "Artist formerly known as Prince, the" look absolutely weird?  
To my observation do most players ignore articles anyway - and that even better with also various definite and indefinite articles across languages.

I think that a good compromise is to fill the fields for ARTIST and ARTISTSORT:  
ARTIST then has the orginal artist name and ARTISTSORT features the string that is used for sorting.

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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: [April 5, 2022, 9:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/changing-the-beatles-to-beatles-the/18473/4 "2022-04-05T09:59:48Z")

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