# Moving the a featured artist from the artist field to the song field!
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-the-a-featured-artist-from-the-artist-field-to-the-song-field/10515
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 3, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-the-a-featured-artist-from-the-artist-field-to-the-song-field/10515 "2010-06-03T22:44:56Z")
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### Author:  [@jimarib](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jimarib)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-the-a-featured-artist-from-the-artist-field-to-the-song-field/10515/1 "2010-06-03T22:44:56Z")
Hi guys, I'm not exactly sure how to do this but here goes.
I want to change a whole bunch of songs which say in the Artist Field: X ft. Y to just Artist: X and the Song Title instead to Say Z (ft. Y).
For example:
FROM
Title: It's You
Artist: Animal Collective ft. Vashti Bunyan
TO
Title: It's You (ft. Vashti Bunyan)
Artist: Animal Collective
Is this possible?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2010, 11:23am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-the-a-featured-artist-from-the-artist-field-to-the-song-field/10515/2 "2010-06-04T11:23:30Z")
> [@ITZ\_JIM](#):
>
> Title: It's You
> Artist: Animal Collective ft. Vashti Bunyan
>
> TO
>
> Title: It's You (ft. Vashti Bunyan)
> Artist: Animal Collective
>
> Is this possible?
It is possible if the "ft." is really the limiter between the title and the artist.
Then it goes in two steps:
first copy the " ft. Vashti Bunyan" to title with an action of the type format field:
select title as field
enter as format string: %title% $mid$(%artist%,$strstr(%artist%," ft"),$len(%artist%))
(save the action)
the next action deletes the string in brackets from the artist:
create a new action of the type "format field"
select Artist as field
enter as format string:
$left(%artist%,$strstr(%artist%," ft"))
(I hope I got the syntax right - so try it first with just one track before you spoil your whole library).
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-the-a-featured-artist-from-the-artist-field-to-the-song-field/10515/3 "2026-02-09T12:22:26Z")