Manipulating contents of the 'Artist' Field

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Hi

My audio files have the ‘Artist’ field in the format: Various Artist\\The Beatles. Is there any way of removing the Various Artist\\ part of the string? I have seen in the ‘How To’ section there is a fix for manipulating the contents of a File Name, but not a Field ( I have almost 2,000 files to change so this would really be a big help).

Many Thanks

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Please show us a screenshot from Alt + T (View -> Extended Tags) from one of your files.
(Just to be sure if your Various Artist\The Beatles is a multi-value field or two artists in one ARTIST field...)

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If your current ARTIST is a multi-value field, then you could use
Convert Tag -> Tag
Field:
ARTIST
Format string:
$replace($meta_sep(ARTIST,'\\'),Various Artist,)

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The above format string would combine the content from all ARTIST fields with two backslashes into one single string and then replace the content "Various Artist" with nothing = delete it.

The preview will display immediately if this works as expected for you.

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Hi LyricsLover

Thanks for your replies. I have tried the format string you suggested, and it has almost done the job. It returned : \\The Beatles. I have tried changing some aspects of your suggestion to get rid of the ‘\\’, but none worked.

I have attached a screenprint of my file format. Here in Windows, the field name is ‘Contributing Artist’, but in MP3Tag, it is simply, ‘Artist’, but I think we’re def talking about the same field in both cases (and The Beatles has also morphed into queen!!).

Cheers

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Hi again

Here is a screen print from MP3Tag which shows how it appears there. Sorry I got the \\ facing the wrong way. I tried changing its direction in your string, but that made no difference and still returned \\The Beatles, or in this case, \\queen

MP3Tag Screen Print
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Your screenshot shows the File List. We need a screenshot from View -> Extended Tags.