# Move "Featuring" from Artist to Title
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-featuring-from-artist-to-title/11096
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 9, 2010, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-featuring-from-artist-to-title/11096 "2010-11-09T12:13:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@don.colvin](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/don.colvin)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2017, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-featuring-from-artist-to-title/11096/81 "2017-01-26T16:12:20Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> Perhaps this post: [Move "Featuring" from Artist to Title](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/11096/19)
yes, this would cover off the first scenario, but maybe not the second
**From:** Artist (feat. a, b, c, b & f) – Title (oaonv Remix)
**To:** Artist – Title (feat. a, b, c, b & f) (oaonv Remix)
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2017, 5:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-featuring-from-artist-to-title/11096/82 "2017-01-26T17:10:01Z")
> [@moe83](#):
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> yes, this would cover off the first scenario, but maybe not the second
>
> **From:** Artist (feat. a, b, c, b & f) – Title (oaonv Remix)
> **To:** Artist – Title (feat. a, b, c, b & f) (oaonv Remix)
If you have Title (feat...) (something else)
then let loose an action of the type "Replace with regular expression" for TITLE
Search string: (._) ((feat._)) ((.\*))
Replace string: $1 $3 $2
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### Author:  [@don.colvin](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/don.colvin)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2017, 10:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-featuring-from-artist-to-title/11096/83 "2017-02-08T10:00:03Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> If you have Title (feat...) (something else)
>
> then let loose an action of the type "Replace with regular expression" for TITLE
> Search string: (._) ((feat._)) ((.\*))
> Replace string: $1 $3 $2
thanks. No joy with this one I am afraid. I don't have (feat. ....) (something else) after the title
I Artist (feat....) - Title (something else) & am looking for Artist - Title (feat....) (something else).
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2017, 11:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-featuring-from-artist-to-title/11096/84 "2017-02-08T11:05:18Z")
> [@moe83](#):
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> thanks. No joy with this one I am afraid. I don't have (feat. ....) (something else) after the title
>
> I Artist (feat....) - Title (something else) & am looking for Artist - Title (feat....) (something else).
So now it is time that you show us the action and the strings that you use.
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### Author:  [@don.colvin](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/don.colvin)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2017, 12:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-featuring-from-artist-to-title/11096/85 "2017-02-08T12:07:51Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> So now it is time that you show us the action and the strings that you use.
attached
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2017, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-featuring-from-artist-to-title/11096/86 "2017-02-08T12:22:55Z")
> [@moe83](#):
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> attached
Are we talking about fields or are we talking about the filename?
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### Author:  [@don.colvin](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/don.colvin)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2017, 12:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-featuring-from-artist-to-title/11096/87 "2017-02-08T12:39:16Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> Are we talking about fields or are we talking about the filename?
The regex works fine, it is just to positioning side of things for the TITLE tag. For example:
**Currently**
**Title:** That's Crazy (Remix)
**Artist:** P. Diddy (feat. Black Rob, Missy Elliott, Snoop Dogg & G. Dep)
In terms of the regex:
Full Match (0/62): P. Diddy (feat. Black Rob, Missy Elliott, Snoop Dogg & G. Dep)
Group 1. (0/8): P. Diddy
Group 2. (9./62): (feat. Black Rob, Missy Elliott, Snoop Dogg & G. Dep)
**Desired**
**Title:** That's Crazy (feat. Black Rob, Missy Elliott, Snoop Dogg & G. Dep) (Remix)
**Artist:** P. Diddy
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2017, 12:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-featuring-from-artist-to-title/11096/88 "2017-02-08T12:54:40Z")
OK: then try it with these steps:
Strip the feat-artist from title and save it in a user-defined field, e.g. %feat\_artist%.
Use an action of the type "Guess value" (import tag field) for that:
Field: %artist%
Guessing pattern: %artist% (feat. %feat\_artist%)
Append the field TITLE with the data from FEAT\_ARTIST with an action of the type "Format value" for TITLE:
Format string: %title% (feat. %feat\_artist%)
This leads to a TITLE with the contents
"That's Crazy (Remix) (feat. Black Rob, Missy Elliott, Snoop Dogg & G. Dep)"
If you want to swap that, use an action of the type "Replace with regular expression" for TITLE:
Search string: `(.*) (\(.*\)) (\(feat. .*)`
Replace string: $1 $3 $2
Finally, you may remove the user-definded field FEAT\_ARTIST
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### Author:  [@don.colvin](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/don.colvin)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-featuring-from-artist-to-title/11096/89 "2017-02-09T15:27:06Z")
Many thanks for your insight on this. I got this working in two stages
**stage 1:**
Action: Guess Value
Source: `%title% $regexp(%artist%,'(.*) (\(?(?:featuring|feat|ft).? .*)',$2 +++ $1,1)`
Guessing Pattern: %title% +++ %artist%
this shifted the (feat....) string to the title, however at the end. So all I needed to work with was the TITLE tag.
**stage 2**
Action: RegEx
Field: TITLE
RegEx: `(.*) (\(.*\)) (\(feat. .*)`
Replace Matches With: $1 $3 $2
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### Author:  [@DOPELING](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DOPELING)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-featuring-from-artist-to-title/11096/90 "2017-10-22T15:17:37Z")
Sorry to necro an old post.... I have been reading this thread for a couple of days now trying to figure out how to use Guess Values but I fear I may be going backwards :S
I want to achieve the following...
Currently:
Title - Believe [feat. Kele Okereke]
Artist - The Chemical Brothers
Wanted:
Title - Believe
Artist - The Chemical Brothers feat. Kele Okereke
If anybody could help me I would be deeply greatful, I absolutely love the power mp3tag wields and want to take advantage as best I can, I'm struggling so hard with this tho! ☹
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-featuring-from-artist-to-title/11096/91 "2017-10-22T15:28:01Z")
> [@DOPELING](#):
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> ...
>
> Currently:
> Title - Believe [feat. Kele Okereke]
> Artist - The Chemical Brothers
>
> Wanted:
> Title - Believe
> Artist - The Chemical Brothers feat. Kele Okereke
> ...
Almost all of it is described in post #88
Create an action of the type "Guess value" for
Source: %TITLE%
Guessing pattern: %title% [feat. %feat\_artist%]
Check if the field FEAT\_ARTIST now exists (Alt-T) and has the correct contents.
If AOK,
create an action of the type "Format value" for ARTIST
Format string: %artist% feat. %feat\_artist%
If AOK you can delete the field FEAT\_ARTIST.
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### Author:  [@Phixion](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Phixion)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2018, 2:11am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-featuring-from-artist-to-title/11096/92 "2018-03-22T02:11:15Z")
@DetlevD you seem to be an expert at this by now, so I humbly request your skills.
Is it possible to move featuring artists from the title to multiple artist fields? Whether it be in 1 or multiple steps?
The TITLE format is:
TITLE (ft. Artist1, Artist2, Artist3)
I've tried sending the featuring artists to the ARTIST field and then replacing the commas with `\\` in the hopes of placing each artist in it's own field, but it only results in 1 ARTIST field with the artists listed like so:
`Artist1\\Artist2\\Artist3`
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2018, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-featuring-from-artist-to-title/11096/93 "2018-03-22T15:23:31Z")
> [@Phixion](#):
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> but it only results in 1 ARTIST field with the artists listed like so:
>
> `Artist1\\Artist2\\Artist3`
where do you check this? Have a look at the extended tags dialogue and see if you have 3 lines for fields labelled ARTIST.
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### Author:  [@Phixion](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Phixion)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2018, 5:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-featuring-from-artist-to-title/11096/94 "2018-03-22T17:12:14Z")
In the extended fields I just see them listed as I described.
If I enter the artists manually and use `\\` to separate it works fine, if I use a replace action to replace ", " between the artists with `\\` then It doesn't separate them into individual artists.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2018, 6:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-featuring-from-artist-to-title/11096/95 "2018-03-22T18:05:53Z")
Maybe, it is necessary to add a "Split fields" action to the action group.
Use the `\\` as separator.
> **[Split Field by Separator – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/split-field/)**
>
> Documentation on the Split Field action type that can be performed as Quick Action or as reusable workflow from Action Groups. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-featuring-from-artist-to-title/11096/96 "2018-03-22T20:44:41Z")
> [@Phixion](#):
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> If I enter the artists manually and use \ to separate it works fine, if I use a replace action to replace ", " between the artists with \ then It doesn't separate them into individual artists.
Just press the save-button after the replace-action.
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### Author:  [@hypersucker](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/hypersucker)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2018, 9:03am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-featuring-from-artist-to-title/11096/97 "2018-05-20T09:03:34Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> OK: then try it with these steps:
> Strip the feat-artist from title and save it in a user-defined field, e.g. %feat\_artist%.
> Use an action of the type "Guess value" (import tag field) for that:
> Field: %artist%
> Guessing pattern: %artist% (feat. %feat\_artist%)
>
> Append the field TITLE with the data from FEAT\_ARTIST with an action of the type "Format value" for TITLE:
> Format string: %title% (feat. %feat\_artist%)
>
> This leads to a TITLE with the contents
>
> "That's Crazy (Remix) (feat. Black Rob, Missy Elliott, Snoop Dogg & G. Dep)"
> If you want to swap that, use an action of the type "Replace with regular expression" for TITLE:
> Search string: `(.*) (\(.*\)) (\(feat. .*)`
> Replace string: $1 $3 $2
>
> Finally, you may remove the user-definded field FEAT\_ARTIST
Tried this, didnt work the way I would like it to. Modified things to see if I can get it to work, Realised I have no idea what I'm doing at all.
As far as I could figure out, the above only works if the featuring part of the ARTIST field is in brackets, right?
What would I need to change if I would like to move any featuring part to the end of the title but before any further brackets.
eg:
ARTIST
Zac Brown feat. Amos Lee
Zac Brown (feat. Amos Lee)
Zac Brown feat. Amos Lee, The Ranglers & Honey And Tudors
Zac Brown (feat. Amos Lee, The Ranglers & Honey And Tudors)
(and any variation of feat/ft/featuring capitalised or not, with or without full-stop or coma or :; )
TITLE
day that I die
day that I die (radio mix)
to
ARTIST
Zac Brown
TITLE
day that I die (feat. amos lee)
day that I die (feat. amos lee) (radio mix)
day that I die (feat. amos lee, the ranglers & honey and tudors)
any help greatly appreciated.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2018, 10:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-featuring-from-artist-to-title/11096/98 "2018-05-20T10:51:33Z")
> [@hypersucker](#):
>
> Tried this, didnt work the way I would like it to.
I would say that at least
> [@hypersucker](#):
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> Use an action of the type "Guess value" (import tag field) for that:
> Field: %artist%
> Guessing pattern: %artist% (feat. %feat\_artist%)
should have worked for
> [@hypersucker](#):
>
> Zac Brown (feat. Amos Lee)
> Zac Brown (feat. Amos Lee, The Ranglers & Honey And Tudors)
for the other occasions
> [@hypersucker](#):
>
> and any variation of feat/ft/featuring capitalised or not, with or without full-stop or coma or :; )
you would need a different pattern - or some kind of actions that first of all unify the "feat".
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### Author:  [@hypersucker](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/hypersucker)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2018, 11:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-featuring-from-artist-to-title/11096/99 "2018-05-20T11:51:11Z")
So, I think I got the action for unifying working.
How do I make it not do anything if there's no featuring part at all. Right now it just adds (feat. ) to every title where there was no featuring part in the Artist field.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2018, 11:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-featuring-from-artist-to-title/11096/100 "2018-05-20T11:54:52Z")
> [@hypersucker](#):
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> it just adds (feat. ) to every title where there was no featuring part
If you have used the Feat\_artist field, then filter for tracks that have got this field
%feat\_artist% PRESENT
and apply the moving action only to these files.
Or filter for files that have feat in ARTIST
artist HAS feat
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