# Find and replace \\\\ separator in Tags

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-and-replace-separator-in-tags/13291
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 4, 2012, 10:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-and-replace-separator-in-tags/13291 "2012-04-04T10:44:33Z")
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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: [April 4, 2012, 1:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-and-replace-separator-in-tags/13291/4 "2012-04-04T13:06:52Z")

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Yes, I have seen the several artist fields in my test file.  
Then I performed the "merge field" action on two files and had a single artist field with all the entries separated by \\. I then executed the replace action on one of the files and got a single artist field with several names in it, separated by comma blank (no wonder).  
For the other file I only pressed save and all the merged artists where separate ones again.

I take it that the op does not want to get multi-value fields and so wants to replace the double backslash with something else that mp3tag on save does not interpret as separator between fields.  
(I think we had a similar discussion in  
[\\ problem](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/13136/9)

So: how do you merge multi-value fields so that they stay merged?

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