# how to swap two words in Artists field?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-swap-two-words-in-artists-field/8564
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 6, 2009, 3:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-swap-two-words-in-artists-field/8564 "2009-07-06T03:44:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![lordhuk](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/a698b9/32.png) [@lordhuk](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/lordhuk)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2009, 3:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-swap-two-words-in-artists-field/8564/1 "2009-07-06T03:44:19Z")

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Hi, my problem is this:

Discogs order the word "The" in the Artist field after the artist's name. For example "The Waifs" is listed as "Waifs, The".

After I sync my tags with the Discogs data, how can I rename the artist's name back to "The Waifs"?

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-swap-two-words-in-artists-field/8564/2 "2009-07-06T17:50:05Z")

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[**Artist, The** to **The Artist**](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/521/14)

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### Author: ![lordhuk](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/a698b9/32.png) [@lordhuk](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/lordhuk)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-swap-two-words-in-artists-field/8564/3 "2009-07-07T00:01:08Z")

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Marvellous, thanks!

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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-swap-two-words-in-artists-field/8564/4 "2026-02-09T12:21:38Z")

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