# Copy album artist field to artist
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-album-artist-field-to-artist/42525
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 31, 2018, 8:13am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-album-artist-field-to-artist/42525 "2018-07-31T08:13:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Popeye2468](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Popeye2468)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2018, 8:13am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-album-artist-field-to-artist/42525/1 "2018-07-31T08:13:15Z")
Hi I want to copy the album artist field to the artist field
All of my attempts have failed except doing it all manually
I know it can be done the other way, but I'm looking to do it the way above
ALBUM ARTIST - ARTIST
please help it's driving me mad lol
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2018, 8:32am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-album-artist-field-to-artist/42525/2 "2018-07-31T08:32:32Z")
Have a look at the FAQs:
> [@Actions and batch-operations](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-and-batch-operations/967/15):
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> How to copy one field value to another field? Example how to copy the content of the ARTIST field to the ALBUMARTIST field: Create a [new action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions/967/2) in an existing action group or make a new action group. Action type: Format value Field: ALBUMARTIST Format string: %artist% Note: If you want to copy all possible values of a field (in case you have multiple artist fields), the internal scripting function [$meta\_sep](https://docs.mp3tag.de/scripting) can be used in the format string, e.g., $meta\_sep(artist,\\\\)
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### Author:  [@Popeye2468](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Popeye2468)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2018, 8:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-album-artist-field-to-artist/42525/3 "2018-07-31T08:48:59Z")
Tried that in reverse
Action type: format value
Field: ARTIST
format string: %albumartist%
But when I did it nothing seemed to happen just said 0 files renamed
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2018, 8:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-album-artist-field-to-artist/42525/4 "2018-07-31T08:55:12Z")
in your orginal post you say
> [@Popeye2468](#):
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> ALBUM ARTIST - ARTIST
there is a difference between ALBUMARTIST and ALBUM ARTIST.
So please check for one of these files the extended tags and see if you have field called
ALBUMARTIST
or
ALBUM ARTIST.
If the latter is the case, you would have to use %album artist% as format string.
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### Author:  [@Popeye2468](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Popeye2468)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2018, 11:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-album-artist-field-to-artist/42525/5 "2018-07-31T11:07:16Z")
Nice one thank you will try it when home from work 😥 lol
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-album-artist-field-to-artist/42525/6 "2026-02-09T12:27:34Z")