# How do I split 1 tag field into 2? **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-split-1-tag-field-into-2/10208 **Category:** Support **Created:** [March 30, 2010, 3:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-split-1-tag-field-into-2/10208 "2010-03-30T03:52:13Z") **Posts on this page:** 4 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![andykennell](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@andykennell](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/andykennell) #### Post date: [March 30, 2010, 3:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-split-1-tag-field-into-2/10208/1 "2010-03-30T03:52:13Z")
My title field contains the song title and artist seperated by an '\_' and my artist field is empty. How can I get the artist text from the title field into the artist field? I tried split field by separator but that just removed the \_ and artist. ---
### Author: ![mjcm](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@mjcm](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mjcm) #### Post date: [March 30, 2010, 4:02am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-split-1-tag-field-into-2/10208/2 "2010-03-30T04:02:18Z")
To split the title into two tags you can use just this action Guess values action. Source format: %title% Guessing pattern: %title%\_%artist% ---
### Author: ![andykennell](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@andykennell](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/andykennell) #### Post date: [March 30, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-split-1-tag-field-into-2/10208/3 "2010-03-30T05:51:24Z")
Thanks Mike ---
### 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, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-split-1-tag-field-into-2/10208/4 "2026-02-09T12:22:17Z")