# Cleaning up duplicated text inside artist tag

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cleaning-up-duplicated-text-inside-artist-tag/41881
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 4, 2018, 9:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cleaning-up-duplicated-text-inside-artist-tag/41881 "2018-06-04T09:44:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Georgm](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@Georgm](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Georgm)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2018, 9:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cleaning-up-duplicated-text-inside-artist-tag/41881/1 "2018-06-04T09:44:51Z")

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I have few mp3s with messed up tags where the same data is duplicated in the artist field.

 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f8ffac149fe1e53e982ca0469e43869cb3124dba.png)

As this picture shows, "Bleachers" is written two times as Artist, anyway to clean this up?

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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: [June 4, 2018, 9:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cleaning-up-duplicated-text-inside-artist-tag/41881/2 "2018-06-04T09:55:24Z")

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You could check out this thread:

> [@Merging several Tag Fields into CONTENTGROUP](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/merging-several-tag-fields-into-contentgroup/10616/5):
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> To be specific: it matches adjacent duplicate comma-delimited items. This limitation determines the need of a new approach to the subject. I think I've come up with the right one: Edit: It is not the right one, actually. See below posts. Action: Replace with regular expression Field: {comma- or comma+space- delimited list} Regular expression: (?\<=,|\A) ?([^,]\*),(?=.\*?(?\<=,) ?\1(?=,|\z)) Replace matches with: It's case-insensitive by default (i.e. will also delete items which differ from …

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### Author: ![Georgm](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@Georgm](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Georgm)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2018, 10:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cleaning-up-duplicated-text-inside-artist-tag/41881/3 "2018-06-04T10:29:03Z")

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Thanks, I'll try this out.

Edit: It does actually works, thanks again!

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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: [February 9, 2026, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cleaning-up-duplicated-text-inside-artist-tag/41881/4 "2026-02-09T12:27:27Z")

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