# Moving Featuring Artist "ONLY"
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-featuring-artist-only/17687
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 23, 2016, 11:23am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-featuring-artist-only/17687 "2016-02-23T11:23:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@STR8TeK9](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/STR8TeK9)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2016, 11:23am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-featuring-artist-only/17687/1 "2016-02-23T11:23:49Z")
Hi does anyone know how to batch move tracks with featuring artists over to another field WITHOUT any other text.
What I mean is that I want to move the featuring text including the parenthesis brackets "(feat. Stephanie Smart)" and leave the "(Original Mix)"
I have pieced together a code string but instead of just moving the "featuring section" it moves everything from the "(featuring. onwards to end of text) This result is an undesired one.
* * *
**ORIGINAL:**
**TITLE** = All We Need (feat. Stephanie Smart) (Original Mix)
**ARTIST** = ARTIST
**UNWANTED RESULT**
**TITLE** = All We Need
**ARTIST** = ARTIST (feat. Stephanie Smart) (Original Mix)
* * *
**Code used is as followed:**
Source format:
%ARTIST%$regexp(%TITLE%,'^(.+?)\s+[[({\<]?\s\*(?:featuring|feat.?|ft.?)\s\*([^])}\>]+)\>\s\*[])}\>]?(.\*)$',' (feat. $2$3)+++$1',1)
Guessing pattern:
%ARTIST%+++%TITLE%
**THIS IS WHAT I AM REQUESTING**
* * *
**ORIGINAL:**
**TITLE** = All We Need (feat. Stephanie Smart) (Original Mix)
**ARTIST** = ARTIST
**WHAT I WANT**
**TITLE** = All We Need (Original Mix)
**ARTIST** = ARTIST (feat. Stephanie Smart)
* * *
Thanks in Advance :
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2016, 11:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-featuring-artist-only/17687/2 "2016-02-23T11:51:01Z")
Perhaps this thread helps:
[Remove "Featuring" from title](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/17606/4)
or this one
[/t/11096/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/11096/1)
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### Author:  [@dadarkman808](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dadarkman808)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-featuring-artist-only/17687/3 "2016-08-09T14:47:03Z")
Hi,
I'm very late on trying to get answers on those threads as most of the topics already found solutions dated back to 2011. I know you've pointed out to two older threads but somehow I couldn't get the specifics provided in them to work on my case which is exactly as the O.P. is (was) trying to get a solution for.
Pretty much converting the following example from:
**Oscar G - Rain (feat. Seri)(Original Mix)**
To:
**Oscar G feat. Seri - Rain (Original Mix)**
So, essentially moving the (feat. artist) to ARTIST and leave the second paranthese intact regardless of its content in TITLE.
I've managed to find a lot of answers in conversion from many threads around here without having to re-open the thread but this one still stumping me. So, a huge thanks to you or for any of the other board RegEX wizards who could help.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-featuring-artist-only/17687/4 "2016-08-09T16:05:58Z")
> [@DaDarkMan](#):
>
> ...
> Pretty much converting the following example from:
> **Oscar G - Rain (feat. Seri)(Original Mix)**
>
> To:
> **Oscar G feat. Seri - Rain (Original Mix)**
> ...
The example you give does not look like fields to me but like a filename.
What do we find in which field?
and i think that in the links mentioned above, post #51 deal with your case:
[Move "Featuring" from Artist to Title](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/11096/51)
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### Author:  [@dadarkman808](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dadarkman808)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-featuring-artist-only/17687/5 "2016-08-09T20:58:14Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> The example you give does not look like fields to me but like a filename.
> What do we find in which field?
>
> and i think that in the links mentioned above, post #51 deal with your case:
> [Move "Featuring" from Artist to Title](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/11096/51)
Thanks for answering.
To clarify: the example is ARTIST - TITLE in the Tags (not the filename).
So, (ARTIST) **Oscar G** - (TITLE) **Rain (feat. Seri)(Original Mix)**
To: (ARTIST) **Oscar G feat. Seri** - (TITLE) **Rain (Original Mix)**
In the thread I've found a Convert solution from DetlevD:
_Convert | Filename - Filename | ALT+3
Old filename pattern:
%1 - %2 (feat. %3)
New filename pattern (formatstring):
%1' feat. '%3' - '%2' (feat. '%3')'_
I slightly modified it to:
_Old Filename pattern:
%1 - %2 (feat. %3)(%4)
New filename pattern:
%1 feat. %3 - %2 (%4)_
And that works.
However, I was hoping to find an **ACTIONS** solution instead as I can't save the Filename Convert. With hundreds of files to clean on a regular, I'm afraid that every time I quit the program I'd constantly have to re-enter the code over and over as opposed to the **ACTIONS** that I could just save and recall. (Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't see how to save the Filename format strings in the Convert pop-up box).
There is this **ACTIONS** solution given a few times in the thread:
Action: Guess Values
_Source Format: %title% $regexp(%artist%,(.) Feat. (.),'('Feat. $2')' +++ $1)
Guessing Pattern: %title% +++ %artist%_
but somehow it doesn't change anything when I try to apply to my situation; there must be something missing or I'm applying it wrong?.
I hope this explain my situation better. Like I said, the Convert is holding me down for now but hopefully an ACTIONS (RegEx) would save me tons of more time.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2016, 3:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-featuring-artist-only/17687/6 "2016-08-10T03:33:04Z")
> [@DaDarkMan](#):
>
> ...
>
> I slightly modified it to:
> Old Filename pattern:
> %1 - %2 (feat. %3)(%4)
> New filename pattern:
> %1 feat. %3 - %2 (%4)
> And that works.
>
> However, I was hoping to find an **ACTIONS**...
You can translate the patterns from the Convert solution almost directly to a regular expression for a Search with regular expression action:
Search string: (._) - (._) (feat. (._))((._))
Replace string: $1 feat. $3 - $2 ($4)
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-featuring-artist-only/17687/7 "2026-02-09T12:26:06Z")