# Filter %artist% NOT "The"
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-artist-not-the/69022
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 2, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-artist-not-the/69022 "2025-07-02T15:25:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@reddwarf4ever](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/reddwarf4ever)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-artist-not-the/69022/1 "2025-07-02T15:25:51Z")
%artist% NOT "The"
want to filter all artist tracks that does NOT contain `The`
thought this would work but doesn't
Nor does
%artist% MISSING "The"
help please
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-artist-not-the/69022/2 "2025-07-02T15:28:02Z")
Try
`NOT %artist% HAS " the "`
which looks for the article.
Otherwise you might also find "theology" or "Thelonious Monk"
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### Author:  [@reddwarf4ever](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/reddwarf4ever)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-artist-not-the/69022/3 "2025-07-02T18:58:29Z")
It's strange that NOT comes first would never have thought of it that way around thanks
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-artist-not-the/69022/4 "2025-07-02T19:02:02Z")
Sometimes the documentation might shed some light on such mysteries:
> **[Filter and Search – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/filter/#not-expr)**
>
> Documentation on Filter and Search and keywords to form complex filter expressions. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2025, 8:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-artist-not-the/69022/5 "2025-07-02T20:57:58Z")
Logical expressions don't follow traditional conversational grammar. Operators like AND, OR come between test conditions to combine teach of the results. The NOT case has to come before the test expression to indicate the true/false result is to be inverted.
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### Author:  [@reddwarf4ever](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/reddwarf4ever)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2025, 9:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-artist-not-the/69022/6 "2025-07-03T09:33:40Z")
Thank you for the explanation
👍👍👍
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 9:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-artist-not-the/69022/7 "2025-08-02T09:33:57Z")
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