# Help with an action

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-an-action/9649
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [January 5, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-an-action/9649 "2010-01-05T21:04:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Ladmo](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b5e925/32.png) [@Ladmo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ladmo)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-an-action/9649/1 "2010-01-05T21:04:18Z")

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I still can't get my head around building my own actions. What I'm trying to do is create an action that'll add the artist in brackets to the end of the title. So that the title looks like this:

The Three Stooges [ABC]

Could any one be kind enough to help me out? Thanks.

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-an-action/9649/2 "2010-01-05T21:17:25Z")

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_Action type:_ **Format value**  
_Field:_ **TITLE**  
_Format string:_ **%title% '['%artist%']'**

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### Author: ![Ladmo](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b5e925/32.png) [@Ladmo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ladmo)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-an-action/9649/3 "2010-01-05T21:21:48Z")

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You are the man! This saves me a ton of time. Thank you!