# How to swap information filled in Artist, Album Artist and Album with the help of MP3 Tag?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-swap-information-filled-in-artist-album-artist-and-album-with-the-help-of-mp3-tag/57667
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 18, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-swap-information-filled-in-artist-album-artist-and-album-with-the-help-of-mp3-tag/57667 "2022-06-18T12:53:15Z")
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### Author:  [@Doron](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Doron)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-swap-information-filled-in-artist-album-artist-and-album-with-the-help-of-mp3-tag/57667/1 "2022-06-18T12:53:15Z")
I have filled the data in the Details under Properties of Audio file. But now I would like to swap the data as mentioned in the subject. I have more than 15 Folders with more than 1000 songs. How to go about the same? Appreciate if any one can advice me on my direct mail id too ([doronmoses@hotmail.com](mailto:doronmoses@hotmail.com)).
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 1:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-swap-information-filled-in-artist-album-artist-and-album-with-the-help-of-mp3-tag/57667/2 "2022-06-18T13:10:03Z")
See the FAQs on how to swap 2 fields:
> [@Actions and batch-operations](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-and-batch-operations/967/14):
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> How to swap the contents of 2 tag fields? Example how to swap TITLE and ARTIST: Create a [new action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions/967/2) in an existing action group or make a new action group. Action type: Guess values Source format: %title%~%artist% Guessing pattern: %artist%~%title% Note: The ~ sign is just used to separate the two fields, you could take any other sign that does not appear in your fields, e.g. ¢ or an extended unicode character like ∞ or ∑.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2022, 5:27am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-swap-information-filled-in-artist-album-artist-and-album-with-the-help-of-mp3-tag/57667/3 "2022-06-28T05:27:00Z")
2 posts were split to a new topic: [Swap title and filename](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/swap-title-and-filename/57770)
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### Author:  [@Doron](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Doron)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2023, 10:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-swap-information-filled-in-artist-album-artist-and-album-with-the-help-of-mp3-tag/57667/4 "2023-12-25T10:37:42Z")
I did the following step by step but it still did not help:
I apologize for any confusion. It seems I misunderstood your requirements. If you want to swap the data between the "Album" and "Album Artist" tags without losing any information, you can use the following steps:
```
Open Mp3tag:
Launch Mp3tag on your computer.
Set the Directory:
Click on "File" in the menu and select "Change directory..." or press Ctrl+O.
Choose the folder containing your MP3 files.
Select All Files:
Press Ctrl+A to select all files in the folder.
Create Custom Actions:
Click on "Actions" in the menu and select "Actions" or press Alt+6.
Click on the "New" button to create a new action group.
Name the new group, e.g., "Swap Album and Album Artist."
Create Action to Swap Tags:
With the new action group selected, click on the "New" button to create a new action.
Choose "Format value" as the action type.
Set the field to %temp%.
Set the format string to %albumartist%.
Click "OK" to create the action.
This action will store the data from the "Album Artist" tag in a temporary variable.
Create another action:
Choose "Format value" as the action type.
Set the field to %albumartist%.
Set the format string to %album%.
Click "OK" to create the action.
This action will copy the original data from the "Album" tag to the "Album Artist" tag.
Create a third action:
Choose "Format value" as the action type.
Set the field to %album%.
Set the format string to %temp%.
Click "OK" to create the action.
This action will copy the data stored in the temporary variable (original "Album Artist" data) to the "Album" tag.
Apply Custom Action:
With all your files still selected, go back to the "Actions" menu, select your new action group ("Swap Album and Album Artist"), and click "OK."
Save Changes:
Click the "Save" icon (or press Ctrl+S) to apply the changes to all selected files.
```
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2023, 10:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-swap-information-filled-in-artist-album-artist-and-album-with-the-help-of-mp3-tag/57667/5 "2023-12-25T10:42:57Z")
See here:
> [@Tag to Tag Exchange](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-to-tag-exchange/63199/4):
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> If you have a close look at the linked action, you can do it in 1 step with a single action and no requirement to use auxiliary fields like TEMP. All further help would be much easier with real data from a real file wih a statement which data could be found at the start and what the outcome of the manipulation should be.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2023, 11:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-swap-information-filled-in-artist-album-artist-and-album-with-the-help-of-mp3-tag/57667/6 "2023-12-25T11:14:29Z")
> [@Doron](#):
>
> Appreciate if any one can advice me on my direct mail id too ([doronmoses@hotmail.com](mailto:doronmoses@hotmail.com)).
This is a public forum. People learn from questions and answers that others get solved. Such solutions can be found by searching the forum (upper right corner) or by linking to such existing solutions.
If we would advice by mail, we would repeat the same answers again and again.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-swap-information-filled-in-artist-album-artist-and-album-with-the-help-of-mp3-tag/57667/7 "2026-02-09T12:29:48Z")