# Help with a Tag

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-a-tag/17964>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [May 19, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-a-tag/17964 "2016-05-19T16:46:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![auldyin](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@auldyin](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/auldyin)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-a-tag/17964/1 "2016-05-19T16:46:20Z")

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I have some Various Artist files (about 1000) in which the track Title is given as:  
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley

I would like to extract from this the Artist as Elvis Presley saving it to Artist and leaving Jailhouse Rock as the Title.

Doing this manually would drive me nuts!!

Thanks

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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:** [May 19, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-a-tag/17964/2 "2016-05-19T16:51:33Z")

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Create an action of the type "Guess value" for %title%  
Guessing pattern: %title% - %artist%  
and apply it

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**Author:** ![auldyin](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@auldyin](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/auldyin)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 5:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-a-tag/17964/3 "2016-05-19T17:08:45Z")

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> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> Create an action of the type "Guess value" for %title%  
> Guessing pattern: %title% - %artist%  
> and apply it

Came out as Artist: Rock - Elvis Presley  
and Title as: Jailhouse

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**Author:** ![auldyin](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@auldyin](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/auldyin)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 5:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-a-tag/17964/4 "2016-05-19T17:12:47Z")

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> [@auldyin](#):
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> Came out as Artist: Rock - Elvis Presley  
> and Title as: Jailhouse

Sorry, sorry sorry....this donkey forgot the hyphen

Works perfectly

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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:** [May 19, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-a-tag/17964/5 "2016-05-19T17:13:31Z")

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> [@auldyin](#):
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> Came out as Artist: Rock - Elvis Presley  
> and Title as: Jailhouse

There has to be a hyphen between %title% and %artist%:  
%title% - %artist%

Otherwise you use the blank as a field separator.

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-a-tag/17964/6 "2026-02-09T12:26:15Z")

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Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:26pm UTC