# How to automate removing items from artist field **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-automate-removing-items-from-artist-field/67256 **Category:** Support **Created:** [January 24, 2025, 12:13am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-automate-removing-items-from-artist-field/67256 "2025-01-24T00:13:20Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 6
### 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: [February 5, 2025, 5:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-automate-removing-items-from-artist-field/67256/6 "2025-02-05T05:58:55Z")
Several things: - If a problem has been solved, then tell us as we tried to find the solution and want to know whether we were successful. - If you have another and different problem, please open a new topic thread. - Before you do so, please use the forum search function as a lot of questions have already been answered. See e.g. here: > [@Replaceing \\\\ in a field](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replaceing-in-a-field/67326): > > Hi, Some of my genre fields have \\ in them ie blues\\rock I want to change the \\ with an action but I assume the software thinks the first \ has special meaning. I can't make it work anyway. Is there a way of writting \\ so that mp3tag knows it is a double backward slash that needs replacing. I have hunted the forums but can't spot anything that I can make work yet. Thanks and if you still have a new question, then please follow > [@Hints for asking Support Requests](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hints-for-asking-support-requests/56190): > > If you need support using Mp3tag, you can help the community members that are about to support you in finding a solution or workaround to your problem, by following these simple guidelines. Be descriptive, also in what you’ve already tried Please give a short explanation what’s not working as expected or what you’re trying to achieve. It’s best to know any details about the problem at hand and especially, what steps you’ve already tried to solve it by yourself. Helpful information also includ… esp. in this case the part about "Formatting". --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-automate-removing-items-from-artist-field/67256)._