# name2, name1 can I auto-reverse

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/name2-name1-can-i-auto-reverse/19297>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [August 30, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/name2-name1-can-i-auto-reverse/19297 "2017-08-30T20:39:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![BJtheDJ](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@BJtheDJ](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/BJtheDJ)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/name2-name1-can-i-auto-reverse/19297/1 "2017-08-30T20:39:29Z")

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**I've used MP3tag for a few years but have only now joined these forums.**

I have many karaoke tracks, numbered in the 10's of thousands, where the author or a subsequent user has adopted their own way of naming the artist and song title.

Commonly they reverse the title and artist, but that's easily sorted using a couple of ID3 tag rename passes.

I've figured out ways, using a batch file renamer, of renaming all of those files where they have decided that Group Name, The - Song Title, so that it reads Group Name - Song Title.

Using the same program I've also managed to rename all of those song titles where - if a title begins with the word The or begins with the word A - they remove that word and add it as a suffix as a comma.

But those are the problems that I have solved, and there's one that I haven't solved.

The artist is presented in the format , with a comma separating the two - when I what I need is to have the format in the natural way .

What I have lots of is:

- - , -

and what I want is:

- - - song title

Please tell me that this problem has already been solved and point me to the solution.

kind regards, BJ

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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:** [August 31, 2017, 3:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/name2-name1-can-i-auto-reverse/19297/2 "2017-08-31T03:09:07Z")

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Are we going to fiddle with the filenames or should the field ARTIST be modified?

For the filename have a look at the function Convert\>Filename-Filename  
- - , -   
would be:  
Source %1 - %2, %3 - %4  
Target: %1 - %3 %2 - %4

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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:** [December 25, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/name2-name1-can-i-auto-reverse/19297/3 "2025-12-25T19:39:21Z")

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