# Extracting Artist from filenames to Artist Column

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-artist-from-filenames-to-artist-column/60257>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 3, 2023, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-artist-from-filenames-to-artist-column/60257 "2023-03-03T19:35:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Winston1979](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Winston1979](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Winston1979)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-artist-from-filenames-to-artist-column/60257/1 "2023-03-03T19:35:17Z")

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So MP3tag has been an amazing programme, I feel like I'm pushing my luck with this question, is there a way to extract the info before the - and copy it to the the correct cell?

 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/1/154ae85c1ebb88bea8b1b67c163125a379ccb920.png)  
So to look like below, I've done this one manually.  
 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6ff5173819e66c14ba2a25c0ca12bb54fe248700.png)  
Does this make sense?

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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:** [March 3, 2023, 7:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-artist-from-filenames-to-artist-column/60257/2 "2023-03-03T19:41:03Z")

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Try Convert\>Filename-Tag  
String: %artist% - %dummy%  
or  
%artist% - %title%

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**Author:** ![Winston1979](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Winston1979](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Winston1979)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 7:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-artist-from-filenames-to-artist-column/60257/3 "2023-03-03T19:53:45Z")

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> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> %artist% - %dummy%

Wow, just wow.

Thank you

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 7:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-artist-from-filenames-to-artist-column/60257/4 "2023-04-02T19:54:27Z")

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