# Copy Artist to Title and include brackets
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-artist-to-title-and-include-brackets/18417
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 11, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-artist-to-title-and-include-brackets/18417 "2016-11-11T18:58:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@yuljk](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/yuljk)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-artist-to-title-and-include-brackets/18417/1 "2016-11-11T18:58:09Z")
Hi guys,
I am re-tagging some various artists albums and would like to copy the current artist name in the ARTIST field to the TITLE field and include brackets.
Example:-
**Before Tagging**
Artist: Kazusa & Shingo Nakamura
Title: Dice
**After Tagging**
Title: Dice (Kazusa & Shingo Nakamura)
Appreciate any suggestions as to how I could do this via 'Actions'.
Cheers
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2016, 9:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-artist-to-title-and-include-brackets/18417/2 "2016-11-12T09:49:30Z")
See the FAQs [/t/967/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1)
Create an action of the type "Format value" for TITLE
Format string: %title% (%artist%)
and even though this is possible - I would not do it. As the brackets are no valid separator if you ever want to get rid of the artist in the title again. Too many titles also contain a string in brackets that is not the artist.
I do no know any player that cannot at least display artist and title so that merging the 2 fields is not necessary.
If you want to get a filename with both pieces of data, use the Convert\>Tag-Filename function
Format string: %title% (%artist%)
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-artist-to-title-and-include-brackets/18417/3 "2026-02-09T12:26:31Z")