# Moving Cover Information in Title to Original Artist Field
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-cover-information-in-title-to-original-artist-field/12257
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 11, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-cover-information-in-title-to-original-artist-field/12257 "2011-07-11T14:38:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@TestTubePuppy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TestTubePuppy)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-cover-information-in-title-to-original-artist-field/12257/1 "2011-07-11T14:38:05Z")
I have a bunch of files like this example:
> Title: Man of Mystery (The Shadows Cover)
I want to change them to be like this:
> Title: Man of Mystery
>
> Original Artist: The Shadows
My plan was to do the following in an action group that could run on my entire library:
> 1) Copy all of my tracks' titles into Original Artist (I have nothing there now)
> 1. Remove the space leading the first "(" and anything between () in any TITLE field string that ends in " Cover)"
>
> 2. Make all ORIGARTIST fields that do not contain " Cover)" blank. Hopefully avoid having to manually handle cases like the song "The Cover of the Rolling Stone."
>
> 3. Remove "(" and " Cover)" from ORIGARTIST field.
I got stuck at step 2, where I tried to use Regular Expressions but couldn't figure out how to do exactly what I wanted. This was my Regular Expression: \((.{\*}) Cover\)
Thanks for your help.
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2011, 3:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-cover-information-in-title-to-original-artist-field/12257/2 "2011-07-11T15:07:07Z")
> [@TestTubePuppy](#):
>
> I have a bunch of files like this example:
>
> > Title: Man of Mystery (The Shadows Cover)
>
> I want to change them to be like this:
>
> > Title: Man of Mystery Original Artist: The Shadows
>
> ...
Take some time and study the forum FAQ areas and the large amount of user posts.
You will easily find a solution for your well known standard request ...
_Actiontype 7:_ **Import tag fields (guess values)**
_Source format \_\_:_ **%TITLE%**
_Guessing pattern:_ **%TITLE%÷(%ORIGARTIST%÷Cover)**
_Note: Replace each special ÷ character with one space character._
DD.20110711.1907.CEST
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### Author:  [@TestTubePuppy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TestTubePuppy)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-cover-information-in-title-to-original-artist-field/12257/3 "2011-07-11T18:04:46Z")
Thanks, I did not realize that importing values from TITLE to ORIGARTIST would also delete the imported values from the titles of my files. I probably overlooked this info in the FAQs because I was more concentrated on the replace function.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-cover-information-in-title-to-original-artist-field/12257/4 "2026-02-09T12:23:12Z")