# Copying Fields and Adding them to Blank Fields **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-fields-and-adding-them-to-blank-fields/60215 **Category:** Support **Created:** [February 27, 2023, 3:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-fields-and-adding-them-to-blank-fields/60215 "2023-02-27T03:17:56Z") **Posts on this page:** 10 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Winston1979](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Winston1979](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Winston1979) #### Post date: [February 27, 2023, 3:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-fields-and-adding-them-to-blank-fields/60215/1 "2023-02-27T03:17:56Z")
Hi, Is there a way of copying a field, e.g Artist Field to Album Artist field. ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/0/076fe45d0b21066fcbfa9bfce513d63123543acf.png) I tried tag-tag method but this didn't work possibly because I may have been doing something wrong. Let me know Thanks ---
### 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: [February 27, 2023, 5:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-fields-and-adding-them-to-blank-fields/60215/2 "2023-02-27T05:04:08Z")
See the FAQs: > [@Actions and batch-operations](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-and-batch-operations/967/15): > > 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,\\\\) ---
### Author: ![Winston1979](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Winston1979](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Winston1979) #### Post date: [February 27, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-fields-and-adding-them-to-blank-fields/60215/3 "2023-02-27T18:07:06Z")
Thanks or your response, this doesn't seem to work for me, have I done this correctly? ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6e2bb5452d3ef70f6525d1c860b30a464848f122.png) Kind Regards ---
### 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: [February 27, 2023, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-fields-and-adding-them-to-blank-fields/60215/4 "2023-02-27T18:08:33Z")
If you put the contents of ARTIST into ARTIST then this will not change ALBUMARTIST. I think that the linked HowTo shows what to do exactly for ALBUMARTIST: ---
### Author: ![Winston1979](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Winston1979](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Winston1979) #### Post date: [February 27, 2023, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-fields-and-adding-them-to-blank-fields/60215/5 "2023-02-27T18:21:40Z")
Ah yes, it not looks like this however all is does is clear the artist field. ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/1/1cf74a9db664fa0136197fd6a2fa92b2cb6a684b.png) ---
### 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: [February 27, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-fields-and-adding-them-to-blank-fields/60215/6 "2023-02-27T18:23:46Z")
could you please follow the linked example? That describes exactly what you have to do. ---
### Author: ![Winston1979](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Winston1979](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Winston1979) #### Post date: [February 27, 2023, 6:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-fields-and-adding-them-to-blank-fields/60215/7 "2023-02-27T18:24:59Z")
What should it look like? I'm missing something here. ---
### 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: [February 27, 2023, 6:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-fields-and-adding-them-to-blank-fields/60215/8 "2023-02-27T18:26:48Z")
It should be the other way round in respect to FIELD and Format string. Which is exactly what it says here: > [@Actions and batch-operations](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-and-batch-operations/967/15): > > Action type: Format value > Field: **ALBUMARTIST** > Format string: **`%artist%`** ---
### Author: ![Winston1979](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Winston1979](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Winston1979) #### Post date: [February 27, 2023, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-fields-and-adding-them-to-blank-fields/60215/9 "2023-02-27T18:29:06Z")
> [@Actions and batch-operations](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-and-batch-operations/967/15): > > ALBUMARTIST Ok, so I was doing it backwards, that has worked, thanks for the help. ---
### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system) #### Post date: [March 29, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-fields-and-adding-them-to-blank-fields/60215/10 "2023-03-29T18:30:00Z")
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