# Extracting text within () from title to albumartist
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-text-within-from-title-to-albumartist/58269
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 22, 2022, 12:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-text-within-from-title-to-albumartist/58269 "2022-08-22T00:57:54Z")
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### Author:  [@Ocalvopina](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ocalvopina)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2022, 12:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-text-within-from-title-to-albumartist/58269/1 "2022-08-22T00:57:54Z")
Hello, I have used MP3TAG to manually edit individual files but now I have a lot of Mashup files whose title have text like the following. (artist1 vs artist2 vs artist3). I would like to extract the text and then copy to album artist. I would also like to remove the text from original title as well. I looked but as I have never done scripting it is not clear. I even saw some listings that said variable length gets would not be possible. Is this simple and I am missing something. Also I have looked at help files but examples don't seem to fit what I want to do. Is there a separate tutorial? or a you tube video? I can do manually but since i am now retired I really want to learn how to use this great product. Thank you in advance.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2022, 5:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-text-within-from-title-to-albumartist/58269/2 "2022-08-22T05:56:55Z")
> [@Ocalvopina](#):
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> I would like to extract the text and then copy to album artist.
Please show us a real example how your TITLE looks currently and how you would like to have filled the ALBUMARTIST tag.
Something like this:
TITLE `Kontra K (vs Sido) vs Leony`
ALBUMARTIST: `Kontra K; Sido; Leony`
or
ALBUMARTIST: `Kontra K\\Sido\\Leony`
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2022, 6:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-text-within-from-title-to-albumartist/58269/3 "2022-08-22T06:24:31Z")
As you are very vague what the strings look like I can only direct you to the thread that also includes the link to the "swiss army knife" to move text around:
> [@Replace multiple tag fields, remove words](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-multiple-tag-fields-remove-words/43670):
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> Hello, I would like to remove from all TITLE tags the following words, (feat.\*) Basically if the title field has any words that begin with feat and enclosed in parenthesis, i.e. (feat.\*) then remove it. I tried using the Actions to create a preset, Replace with Regular Expression,but I can't get it to work Any help is appreciated
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### Author:  [@Ocalvopina](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ocalvopina)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2022, 6:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-text-within-from-title-to-albumartist/58269/4 "2022-08-22T06:50:46Z")
Thank you for your offer to help. I have mashup files that have TITLE like this:
Name of song (artist1 vs. artist2)
Sometimes there are even more listed artists. When I do manually I just select the text from parenthesis to parenthesis and then cut and paste to ALBUMARTIST field. I was hoping to automate this as the files have same format. Musicbee which I am using for my mashup files allows for searching on names in ALBUMARTIST field. I have seen people use ; and // as separators is there an advantage to doing this? As I had been doing manually I had left the formatting alone.
I guess I am too new and the syntax in examples don’t make sense to me yet. I was hoping if someone would show me how to do this I could reverse engineer and learn the syntax of text scripting. Or if someone can point me in direction of very basic examples I can learn by example. Again thank you in advance for your help
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2022, 7:02am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-text-within-from-title-to-albumartist/58269/5 "2022-08-22T07:02:57Z")
As you are new, I would suggest that you use the Convert function, in this case: Convert\>Tag-Tag for ALBUMARTIST
Format string: `%albumartist% $regexp(%title%,.*\((.*)\),$1)`
This should copy the part in parenthesis to ALBUMARTIST
To remove the copied part, use Convert\>Tag-Tag for TITLE
Format string: `$regexp(%title%,(.*)\(.*\),$1)`
The converter has a preview, so you should see immediately whether it leads to the desired result.
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### Author:  [@Ocalvopina](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ocalvopina)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2022, 7:16am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-text-within-from-title-to-albumartist/58269/6 "2022-08-22T07:16:56Z")
Thank you I will try it in the morning as it is 2 AM for me here in Chicago.
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### Author:  [@Ocalvopina](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ocalvopina)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-text-within-from-title-to-albumartist/58269/7 "2022-08-22T15:14:16Z")
Thank you that did work!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-text-within-from-title-to-albumartist/58269/8 "2022-09-21T15:14:57Z")
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