# Move "& 2nd artist" from Artist to Title (Duet album)

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-2nd-artist-from-artist-to-title-duet-album/13009>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [January 27, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-2nd-artist-from-artist-to-title-duet-album/13009 "2012-01-27T18:44:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![jackedgco](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@jackedgco](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jackedgco)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-2nd-artist-from-artist-to-title-duet-album/13009/1 "2012-01-27T18:44:23Z")

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I have Tony Bennetts Duet II album and the Artist column contains two artists.  
The layout changes in two songs. I will provide another example to explain.  
It's a bit complicated to explain so I'll just give an example. Is this possible?  
I realise it's might not be a simple request but I would be very grateful. Thanks 🙂

All songs apart from two are laid out like this.

Before -  
Artist: Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse  
Title: Body and Soul

After -  
Artist: Tony Bennett  
Title: Body and Soul (ft. Amy Winehouse)

2nd Example

Before -  
Artist: Tony Bennett & Queen Latifah  
Title: Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)

After -  
Artist: Tony Bennett  
Title: Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) (ft. Queen Latifah)

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**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:** [January 27, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-2nd-artist-from-artist-to-title-duet-album/13009/2 "2012-01-27T19:51:34Z")

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> [@jackedgco](#):
>
> ...  
> Before -  
> Artist: Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse  
> Title: Body and Soul
> 
> After -  
> Artist: Tony Bennett  
> Title: Body and Soul (ft. Amy Winehouse)

The separator between first and second artist always seems to be the ampersand.

So perform a 2-step:  
step 1:  
add the Artist after the & to TITLE by an action of the type "Format tag field":  
%title% (ft. $mid(%artist%,$add($strstr(%artist%,'& '),2),$len(%artist%)))  
Step 2:  
cut the superfluous artist behind the ampersand by simply replacing him/her/it with nothing:  
Action: Replace with regular expression for ARTIST  
Search string:  
(._) &._  
Replace  
$1

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**Author:** ![jackedgco](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@jackedgco](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jackedgco)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-2nd-artist-from-artist-to-title-duet-album/13009/3 "2012-01-27T20:02:03Z")

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> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> The separator between first and second artist always seems to be the ampersand.
> 
> So perform a 2-step:  
> step 1:  
> add the Artist after the & to TITLE by an action of the type "Format tag field":  
> %title% (ft. $mid(%artist%,$add($strstr(%artist%,'& '),2),$len(%artist%)))  
> Step 2:  
> cut the superfluous artist behind the ampersand by simply replacing him/her/it with nothing:  
> Action: Replace with regular expression for ARTIST  
> Search string:  
> (._) &._  
> Replace  
> $1

This worked perfectly! You're an utter genius! 😃  
Thanks very much for the quick response!

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**Author:** ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-2nd-artist-from-artist-to-title-duet-album/13009/4 "2014-02-28T18:35:53Z")

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> [@jackedgco](#):
>
> Before -  
> Artist: Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse  
> Title: Body and Soul  
> After -  
> Artist: Tony Bennett  
> Title: Body and Soul (ft. Amy Winehouse)
> 
> Before -  
> Artist: Tony Bennett & Queen Latifah  
> Title: Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)  
> After -  
> Artist: Tony Bennett  
> Title: Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) (ft. Queen Latifah)

 **Action "Format value" ... or ... Converter "Tag - Tag" Field: TITLE Formatstring: %TITLE%' (ft. '$cutLeft(%ARTIST%,$add($strstr(%ARTIST%,' & '),2))')' ... or ... Formatstring: $replace(%TITLE%' (ft. ~~~)','~~~',$cutLeft(%ARTIST%,$add($strstr(%ARTIST%,' & '),2))) ... or ... Formatstring: $replace(%TITLE%' (ft. ~~~)','~~~',$regexp(%ARTIST%,'^(.+?)\s&\s(.+?)$','$2')) ... or ... Formatstring: $regexp(%ARTIST%'~~~'%TITLE%,'^(.+?)\s&\s(.+?)~~~(.+?)$','$3 (ft. $2)') Action "Format value" ... or ... Converter "Tag - Tag" Field: ARTIST Formatstring: $left(%ARTIST%,$sub($strstr(%ARTIST%,' & '),1)) ... or ... Formatstring: $regexp(%ARTIST%,'^(.+?)\s&\s(.+?)$','$1') ... or ... Formatstring: $regexp(%ARTIST%,'^(.+?)\s&.+$','$1') ... or ... Formatstring: $regexp(%ARTIST%,'\s&.+$',)**

DD.20140228.2101.CET

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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, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-2nd-artist-from-artist-to-title-duet-album/13009/5 "2026-02-09T12:23:37Z")

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Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC