I need to create an action that will replace the "&" sign with "And" only when & is the first word in either the title or the artist. I read the regular expression help but I can't say I understood much :slight_smile:

Could you give a real example of text in which you want to have it replaced an where you don't? An action of the type "Format value" for ARTIST and Format string: $regexp(%artist%,'^\&',And) may work - but I hardly know any Artist that starts with &

Your fellow Germans "And One" is the perfect example. I think I may have just figured it out. Field: ALL RegExp: ^&\s+ Replace with: And Seems to have worked for me. I may have found a small glitch. I created an action called Replace & with And. The action display shows "_" instead of the "&"…

[image] tdog: I may have found a small glitch. No glitch, a feature. The & is used to markup keyboard shortcuts. See the documentation on actions: [image] Actions – Mp3tag Documentation Documentation on Quick Actions and Action Groups that covers replace text, case conversion, t…

Thanks, I read it, can't say I understand. Coding is not my strong side, sorry.

I was referring to the section on how to create keyboard shortcuts with the ampersand.

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