# Help dealing with albumartistsort

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-dealing-with-albumartistsort/66401
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 2, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-dealing-with-albumartistsort/66401 "2024-11-02T14:43:15Z")
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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 3, 2024, 6:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-dealing-with-albumartistsort/66401/7 "2024-11-03T06:41:15Z")

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> [@sjkiss](#):
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> I can see how your script would solve my problem for the "The" though. But how do I solve the first problem?

My suggestion would copy ALBUMARTIST to ALBUMARTISTSORT in all cases and only for those with a leading "The" it would leave out that article.

And in general for the problem of copying fields, there is a post in the FAQs:

> [@Actions and batch-operations](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-and-batch-operations/967/15):
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> How to copy one field value to another field? Example how to copy the content of the ARTIST field to the ALBUMARTIST field: Create a [new action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions/967/2) in an existing action group or make a new action group. Action type: Format value Field: ALBUMARTIST Format string: %artist% Note: If you want to copy all possible values of a field (in case you have multiple artist fields), the internal scripting function [$meta\_sep](https://docs.mp3tag.de/scripting) can be used in the format string, e.g., $meta\_sep(artist,\\\\)

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