# Fill ALBUMARTISTSORT from ALBUMARTIST

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/fill-albumartistsort-from-albumartist/43484
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 6, 2018, 9:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/fill-albumartistsort-from-albumartist/43484 "2018-11-06T21:23:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![phossler](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@phossler](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/phossler)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2018, 9:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/fill-albumartistsort-from-albumartist/43484/1 "2018-11-06T21:23:31Z")

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Trying to cleanup my library so that iTunes likes it

I have  
ARTIST = "The Beach Boys"  
ALBUMARTIST = "The Beach Boys"

I'm trying to get  
ALBUMARTISTSORT = "Beach Boys, The"

I found some posts about using the Guess action, but couldn't get them to work

Is there a way to do this?

I want to also use it for TITLESORT, ARTISTSORT, ALBUMSORT, etc,

Thanks

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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: [November 7, 2018, 6:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/fill-albumartistsort-from-albumartist/43484/2 "2018-11-07T06:00:18Z")

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see this thread from 2009:

> [@Newbie Ignorance...ARTISTSORT](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/newbie-ignorance-artistsort/9403):
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> Have done a search, and I'm sure it's covered, but I haven't found a step by step for a newbie like me. I have my music tagged, but would like to add SORTARTIST to flac files. Can someone please explain exactly what steps to follow to add this so "Eric Clapton" shows as "Clapton, Eric", etc? Thanks for the help and patience...

and this one to move "the" to the end:

> [@Move THE to end of artist tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-the-to-end-of-artist-tag/12769):
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> First, thanks for this great software. I have searched the various topics but cannot find an answer for this... I want to move all the word THE at the beginning of all ARTIST fields to become (The) at the end of the field. I can use the tool to change the case OK, but how do you move the word to the end of the ARTIST name? So becomes \<STONE ROSES (The)\>. Many thanks

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### Author: ![phossler](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@phossler](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/phossler)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2018, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/fill-albumartistsort-from-albumartist/43484/3 "2018-11-07T15:11:02Z")

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Thank - I did not think about using RegEx - Works very well

I did notice that TITLESORT is in the list of fields [Tag Field Mappings – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/mapping)

but not on the Action-building picklist (extended fields, etc.)

Is there an editable list that I can add it?

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/fill-albumartistsort-from-albumartist/43484/4 "2018-11-07T15:20:39Z")

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`TITLESORT` is usually included in that list. You can either reset the list via the small menu button next to the field list or enter it manually.

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### Author: ![phossler](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@phossler](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/phossler)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2018, 3:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/fill-albumartistsort-from-albumartist/43484/5 "2018-11-08T03:08:29Z")

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Thanks again -- I don't know how I deleted it

Now my library is looking a little more organized

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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: [February 9, 2026, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/fill-albumartistsort-from-albumartist/43484/6 "2026-02-09T12:27:45Z")

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