# Combine values from two fields into one field
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/combine-values-from-two-fields-into-one-field/69010
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 1, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/combine-values-from-two-fields-into-one-field/69010 "2025-07-01T17:58:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Alexey\_Rzayev](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Alexey_Rzayev)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/combine-values-from-two-fields-into-one-field/69010/1 "2025-07-01T17:58:50Z")
Hello!
Having studied the information on the Internet and on your site, I still could not find the answer to my question.
Tell me, please, is it possible to use your program to combine values from two fields into one field and, if the first and second fields contain the same values, they are deleted?
For example, I have two fields with metadata:
Field1 — Value2; Value1; Value3; Value4; Value5
Field2 — Value6; Value7; Value1
I need them to be combined into one field:
Field3 — Value1; Value2; Value3; Value4; Value5; Value6; Value7
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/combine-values-from-two-fields-into-one-field/69010/2 "2025-07-01T18:00:31Z")
What determines the order in the new field? Is it sorted alphabetically?
(Real examples are better in many cases)
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### Author:  [@Alexey\_Rzayev](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Alexey_Rzayev)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/combine-values-from-two-fields-into-one-field/69010/3 "2025-07-01T18:01:33Z")
The order doesn't matter.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/combine-values-from-two-fields-into-one-field/69010/4 "2025-07-01T18:04:51Z")
If the order does not matter, then try Convert\>Tag-Tag for Field3
Format string: %field1%; %field2%
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### Author:  [@Alexey\_Rzayev](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Alexey_Rzayev)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/combine-values-from-two-fields-into-one-field/69010/5 "2025-07-01T18:13:38Z")
Thanks for trying but unfortunately it didn't work. In the field3 just one of the values was repeated twice.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/combine-values-from-two-fields-into-one-field/69010/6 "2025-07-01T18:14:23Z")
I think that would be 2nd step.
See this thread on how to remove duplicate words from a field:
> [@Merge duplicate words](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/merge-duplicate-words/16289):
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> Hi, I would like to find in genre duplicate words and merge them together. This is an example of genre tag: Before AFRICA; AFRICA; NATURAL WORLD; NATURE STUDY; NATURE; DRAMA ADVENTURE; DRAMA WORLD; PERCUSSION; INSTRUMENTS SOLO PERCUSSION; WILDLIFE MOVEMENT; DRAMA ADVENTURE; AFRICA; FILM STYLES ANCIENT ROME; AFRICA After AFRICA; NATURAL WORLD; NATURE STUDY; NATURE; DRAMA WORLD; PERCUSSION; INSTRUMENTS SOLO PERCUSSION; WILDLIFE MOVEMENT; DRAMA ADVENTURE; FILM STYLES ANCIENT ROME ; is the …
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### Author:  [@Alexey\_Rzayev](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Alexey_Rzayev)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/combine-values-from-two-fields-into-one-field/69010/7 "2025-07-01T18:14:44Z")
more precisely, the first value from each of the two fields was taken and transferred to the third field
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 6:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/combine-values-from-two-fields-into-one-field/69010/8 "2025-07-01T18:15:46Z")
so you don't have `;` as separator but `\\`?
That is why screenshots are usually a good idea.
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### Author:  [@Alexey\_Rzayev](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Alexey_Rzayev)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/combine-values-from-two-fields-into-one-field/69010/9 "2025-07-01T18:19:28Z")
as a separator I always use only ;
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### Author:  [@Alexey\_Rzayev](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Alexey_Rzayev)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/combine-values-from-two-fields-into-one-field/69010/10 "2025-07-01T18:21:47Z")
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### Author:  [@Alexey\_Rzayev](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Alexey_Rzayev)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/combine-values-from-two-fields-into-one-field/69010/11 "2025-07-01T18:22:32Z")
artists = soloists
artists = soloists
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/combine-values-from-two-fields-into-one-field/69010/12 "2025-07-01T18:23:18Z")
could you still show a screenshot from the extended tags dialogue from a single of these files?
I suspect that you have to use $meta\_sep(field1,; ) instead of the simple %field1%
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### Author:  [@Alexey\_Rzayev](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Alexey_Rzayev)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/combine-values-from-two-fields-into-one-field/69010/13 "2025-07-01T18:24:34Z")
So it's just one file!
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/combine-values-from-two-fields-into-one-field/69010/14 "2025-07-01T18:26:14Z")
The extended tags dialogue from a single file would show if there are multi-value fields. These would have to be merged first
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### Author:  [@Alexey\_Rzayev](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Alexey_Rzayev)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/combine-values-from-two-fields-into-one-field/69010/15 "2025-07-01T18:34:28Z")
Yes, your script works now, thank you very much! But I had to manually rework the fields to merge the values. Is there any way to speed up this process?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/combine-values-from-two-fields-into-one-field/69010/16 "2025-07-01T18:35:35Z")
> [@Alexey\_Rzayev](#):
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> But I had to manually rework the fields to merge the values
I can't tell you as I have not yet seen the extended tags dialogue.
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### Author:  [@Alexey\_Rzayev](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Alexey_Rzayev)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/combine-values-from-two-fields-into-one-field/69010/17 "2025-07-01T18:37:34Z")
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 6:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/combine-values-from-two-fields-into-one-field/69010/18 "2025-07-01T18:47:33Z")
The expression in Convert\>Tag-Tag for FIELD3 could look like this:
Format string: `$reverse($regexp($regexp(';'$reverse(%artist%; %composer%),'\s*(;[^;]+)(?=(\s*\1|;.*?\1))',),'^\s*;+|;+\s*$',))`
$meta\_sep() does not seem to be necessary as (at least in this file) there are no multi-value fields.
So I don't know what you had to rework.
I get the following result:
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### Author:  [@Alexey\_Rzayev](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Alexey_Rzayev)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/combine-values-from-two-fields-into-one-field/69010/19 "2025-07-01T18:59:57Z")
Thank you, I don't understand why such a difficult script is needed if the previous simple one works exactly the same way/ But still, could you, if it's not too much trouble, answer my last question on how to quickly and automatically combine the separated values so that the first script works as it should?
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### Author:  [@Alexey\_Rzayev](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Alexey_Rzayev)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/combine-values-from-two-fields-into-one-field/69010/20 "2025-07-01T19:03:49Z")
By the way, I was able to rework the script from the link you gave me and now I can use it to remove duplicate values. Thank you!!
$trim($regexp(%composer%,'(?:(?\<=;)|(?\<=\A))\s\*([^;]_)\s_;(?=._?(?\<=;)\s_\1(?=;|\Z))',,1))
I just replaced all the signs ; with / . I hope this is correct ☹
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