# Move Secondary Artists - \> Album Artist field

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-secondary-artists-album-artist-field/58788>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [October 13, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-secondary-artists-album-artist-field/58788 "2022-10-13T17:29:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Koray](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/85f322/32.png) [@Koray](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Koray)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-secondary-artists-album-artist-field/58788/1 "2022-10-13T17:29:50Z")

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Hello, i'm trying to move artist fields with multiple, ex. artist1; artist2, so that way under "Artist" only artist1 will be displayed, and in albumartist both will be. I've tried format value ALBUMARTIST %artist%, but this only copies the first artist instead of both

Or, if possible, remove duplicate fields but only for "Artist" rather than everything.

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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:** [October 13, 2022, 5:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-secondary-artists-album-artist-field/58788/3 "2022-10-13T17:32:58Z")

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> [@Koray](#):
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> if I could do remove duplicate fields but ONLY on the artist field

See the documentation for an action to remove duplicate fields

> **[Remove Duplicate Fields – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/remove-duplicate-fields/)**
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> Documentation on the Remove Duplicate Fields action type that can be performed as Quick Action or as reusable workflow from Action Groups. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.

or do merge them first and treat all data as one field:

> **[Merge Duplicate Fields – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/merge-duplicate-fields/)**
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> Documentation on the Merge Duplicate Fields action type that can be performed as Quick Action or as reusable workflow from Action Groups. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.

To access all fields of one type in scripting, see the $meta functions:

> **[Scripting Functions – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/scripting/#metadata-functions)**
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> Documentation on Mp3tag's scripting functions. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.

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**Author:** ![Koray](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/85f322/32.png) [@Koray](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Koray)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 5:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-secondary-artists-album-artist-field/58788/4 "2022-10-13T17:35:06Z")

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Okay yeah! Merging allows selecting one field, this works! Is semicolon the standard separator for multiple artists? Or should I use a comma? Thank you so much by the way!

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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:** [October 13, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-secondary-artists-album-artist-field/58788/5 "2022-10-13T17:37:49Z")

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> [@Koray](#):
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> Is semicolon the standard separator for multiple artists?

That depends on your player.  
In MP3tag the double backslash `\\` indicates that there is more than one field of the same type - see the extended tags dialogue Alt-T.

If you want to treat a single field in MP3tag then the semicolon is OK as I think there may be artists names that have a comma as part of their name. So a comma would not be a unique separator between the individual names.

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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:** [November 12, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-secondary-artists-album-artist-field/58788/6 "2022-11-12T17:38:24Z")

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