The, Beatles - hello goodbye to Beatles, The - Hello goodbye tried replace with regular expression ^(the)\s(.+)$ $2 ($1) doesnt work thanks

[image] Zaphod Beeblebrox: The, Beatles To becone Beatles, The Try "Replace with regular expression" for ARTIST Search string: ^The (.*) Replace with: $1, The My favourite group for this procedure is always "The The". Also problematic: The Duke & The King The Head & The Heart The Wee…

This is what your regular expression actually tries to match: [image] In your example there is no space after your word "The".

[image] Zaphod Beeblebrox: Beatles, The - Hello goodbye I would say that this is not the ARTIST but something else. The artist is "The Beatles". So what does the data in the field ARTIST look like?

This works for me: find: (^.*?), (.*?)( -.*?)$ replace: \2, \1\3 or $2, $1,$3

@anon32189785 The OP asks for a solution to move "The" at the beginning of the ARTIST field. In your solution everything at the beginning (in front of the comma) will be moved. Typical example for an ARTIST that should NOT be moved: Earth, Wind & Fire

Hello Think it should be dimple, just can't get my head around writing mp3tag scripts Need in artist fiekd The, Beatles To becone Beatles, The Needs to search for first 3 characters in artist field to be The Then move it to the end of the artist field Hopefully someone can help me with the c…

Thank you Will give this a try, plan to use on my massive music collection, will do on a backup first lol Does this only look for The I'm the first 3 characters :thinking: If The appears elsewhere in the artist field needs to be ignored e.g Brian Poole and The tremeloes, in this case The "The" s…

Yes, it matches only occurrences of The at the start of the line (denoted by ^ in the expression above). You can also always experiment and try for yourself. It's a good way to familarize yourself with the workings of these actions.

Is there a guide to what all the symbols mean and what they achieve e.g. ^ Would love to learn what that and $ do Thanks

See the documentation about regular expressions: [image] Regular Expressions – Mp3tag Documentation Documentation on support for regular expressions in Mp3tag. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.

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