# Newbie Ignorance...ARTISTSORT

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/newbie-ignorance-artistsort/9403
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 22, 2009, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/newbie-ignorance-artistsort/9403 "2009-11-22T13:59:43Z")
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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2009, 2:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/newbie-ignorance-artistsort/9403/2 "2009-11-22T14:53:25Z")

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Make an action group with these actions:

Action #1:  
_Action type:_ **Format value**  
_Field:_ **ARTISTSORT**  
_Formatstring:_ **%artist%**

Action #2:  
_Action type:_ **Replace with regular expression**  
_Field:_ **ARTISTSORT**  
_Regular expression:_ **^(.+)\s(.+)$**  
_Replace matches with:_ **$2, $1**

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