# How to Edit artist field?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-edit-artist-field/9188
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 23, 2009, 6:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-edit-artist-field/9188 "2009-10-23T06:30:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![gebak](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@gebak](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gebak)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2009, 6:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-edit-artist-field/9188/1 "2009-10-23T06:30:59Z")

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Hello everybody,

Artist field is - Artist (- Sam & Dave)  
How can i easily remove the - so that new artist field says Sam & Dave (without the -)?  
Tnx a million.

Gerard

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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: [October 23, 2009, 6:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-edit-artist-field/9188/2 "2009-10-23T06:50:14Z")

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_Action type:_ **Replace with regular expressions**  
_Regular expression_: **^\s\*-\s+**  
_Replace matches with_:

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### Author: ![gebak](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@gebak](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gebak)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2009, 7:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-edit-artist-field/9188/3 "2009-10-23T07:04:56Z")

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Great this works! Thank you very much!

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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, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-edit-artist-field/9188/4 "2026-02-09T12:21:53Z")

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