# Help moving Ft. from artist to title
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-moving-ft-from-artist-to-title/14513
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 2, 2013, 10:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-moving-ft-from-artist-to-title/14513 "2013-03-02T22:14:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@clintstuckless](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/clintstuckless)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2013, 10:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-moving-ft-from-artist-to-title/14513/1 "2013-03-02T22:14:05Z")
Can some one help
I have setup a action group
1 - Action to copy the feat artist from artist to title:
Format tag field
Field: title
String: %title% $mid(%artist%,$add($strstr($lower(%artist%),'Ft.'),6),$len(%artist%))
2- Action to cut the feat artist from artist
Format tag field
Field: artist
String: $left(%artist%,$strstr($lower(%artist%), Ft.))
3- a little hygiene
Format tag field
Field: artist
String=$trim(%artist%)
Not sure what 3rd action does
I Have
TITLE
My First Kiss
ARTIST
3oh!3 Ft. Ke$ha
The above code is changing it to
TITLE
My First Kiss Ft. Ke$ha
ARTIST
blank
Also putting a double space between title and Ft.
Please help
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### Author:  [@clintstuckless](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/clintstuckless)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2013, 10:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-moving-ft-from-artist-to-title/14513/2 "2013-03-02T22:16:56Z")
I also ran this on 2 files at the same time. One with Ft. and one without and it removed the ARTIST on both.
I want to run this on my entire library and not have to select the files my self
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2013, 9:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-moving-ft-from-artist-to-title/14513/3 "2013-03-03T09:07:15Z")
If am pretty sure that
%title% $mid(%artist%,$add($strstr($lower(%artist%),'Ft.'),6),$len(%artist%))
will not work as you have a Ft with a capital to compare with but the ARTIST is always in lower case (see "$lower"). So the result will always be 0 - which means the whole string.
Also, the "6" in that expressions is the count of the letter f-e-a-t-.-blank as the featured artist will start behind this string. If you reduce the "feat. " to "ft." you would have to set a 4 instead of a 6.
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### Author:  [@clintstuckless](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/clintstuckless)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2013, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-moving-ft-from-artist-to-title/14513/4 "2013-03-03T19:52:08Z")
I tried your changes and now it works on the tracks with ft. in it but the tracks with out it, it removes the ARTIST.
This is what I am using
1 - Action to copy the feat artist from artist to title:
Format tag field
Field: title
String: %title% $mid(%artist%,$add($strstr($lower(%artist%),'ft.'),0),$len(%artist%))
2- Action to cut the feat artist from artist
Format tag field
Field: artist
String: $left(%artist%,$strstr($lower(%artist%), ft.))
3- a little hygiene
Format tag field
Field: artist
String=$trim(%artist%)
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> If am pretty sure that
> %title% $mid(%artist%,$add($strstr($lower(%artist%),'Ft.'),6),$len(%artist%))
> will not work as you have a Ft with a capital to compare with but the ARTIST is always in lower case (see "$lower"). So the result will always be 0 - which means the whole string.
> Also, the "6" in that expressions is the count of the letter f-e-a-t-.-blank as the featured artist will start behind this string. If you reduce the "feat. " to "ft." you would have to set a 4 instead of a 6.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2013, 7:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-moving-ft-from-artist-to-title/14513/5 "2013-03-03T19:56:17Z")
> [@clintstuckless](#):
>
> I tried your changes and now it works on the tracks with ft. in it but the tracks with out it, it removes the ARTIST.
You will not come around the necessity to apply a filter like
%artist% HAS "ft."
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### Author:  [@clintstuckless](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/clintstuckless)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2013, 12:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-moving-ft-from-artist-to-title/14513/6 "2013-03-04T00:41:41Z")
I dont understand
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> You will not come around the necessity to apply a filter like
> %artist% HAS "ft."
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### Author:  [@clintstuckless](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/clintstuckless)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2013, 1:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-moving-ft-from-artist-to-title/14513/7 "2013-03-04T01:17:29Z")
Figured that out.
Didnt know I could do that
> [@clintstuckless](#):
>
> I dont understand
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-moving-ft-from-artist-to-title/14513/8 "2026-02-09T12:24:22Z")