# Copy part of Artist to Title

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-part-of-artist-to-title/8607
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 13, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-part-of-artist-to-title/8607 "2009-07-13T16:57:25Z")
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### Author: ![moley6knipe](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@moley6knipe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/moley6knipe)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-part-of-artist-to-title/8607/1 "2009-07-13T16:57:25Z")

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I've just finished tagging my apple lossless library with an artist value of eg "OutKast; Jay-Z" and a band tag of eg "OutKast" as this works as I want in iTunes and SqueezeCenter.

I then batch convert to mp3 for iPod. Sadly iPod doesn't pick up the band field, despite iTunes doing so, so now my iPod browsing is _really_ screwed!

I need to somehow remove all bar the main artist from the artist fields, and copy the remainder to the end of the title.

Currently...  
Title = In Your Dreams  
Band = OutKast  
Artist = OutKast; Killer Mike; Janelle Monáe

Hopefully!....  
Title = In Your Dreams [Feat. Killer Mike; Janelle Monáe]  
Band = OutKast  
Artist = OutKast

I know this should be possible with RegEx, and I've tried but I really, really can't get my head round RegEx! So a plea for help please!

A caveat...  
Artist field can have any number of artists in it, but the main one is always first.  
Values entered into artist field exactly as written, ie use of semi-colon followed by space to seperate artists.  
Obviously there's no way text-matching or length-matching will work; the artist field can contain anything!

Thanks!

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