Extract text from title or filename

[poster]

@Bill TKD

I have ripped several CDs with incorrectly formatted freedb entries. The artists' names and track titles are combined in the Title tag, usually separated by a dash or a solidus (/), and the Title tags just say 'Various Artists'.
Is there a way to extract the component text automatically?
(Apologies if this has been covered before.)

This is very common in freedb with samplers because no albumartist is used. As you don't tell us what's in the filename I cannot tell you how to resolve the problem with the filename.
Have a look at the FAQ
/t/8016/1

Without using the filename you can use two actions or combine them as an action group:
First you have to get the files with the same separator in a row. Then mark all of them.

1. Save the calue of the artist-tag to the albumartist-tag
   Action Type: Format Values
   Field: ALBUMARTIST
   Format String: %artist%

2. Get artist and title from the title-tag
   Action Type: Gues Values
   Source Format: %title%
   Guessing pattern: %artist%/%title%
   or %artist% / %title% or %artist% - %title%

The guessing pattern of the second action depends of the kind of separator in the tags and if there is a white space or not. The separator is always the complete string of characters between artist and title.

Test this with a copy of your files. It does not work properly if the chosen separator character is present in the artist-name too.