Copy album artist field to artist

[Popeye2468]

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

[ohrenkino]

Have a look at the FAQs:

Actions and batch-operations

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 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 can be used in the format string, e.g., $meta_sep(artist,\\\\)

[Popeye2468]

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

[ohrenkino]

in your orginal post you say

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.

[Popeye2468]

Nice one thank you will try it when home from work lol