# 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")
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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: [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")

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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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