# Problem exporting Artist Tag
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-exporting-artist-tag/51939
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 11, 2021, 9:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-exporting-artist-tag/51939 "2021-02-11T09:21:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Bernard](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Bernard)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2021, 9:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-exporting-artist-tag/51939/1 "2021-02-11T09:21:07Z")
Sometimes the Artist Tag contains data with two backslashes.
[ ](https://imgur.com/rtufO7q)
When I export the Artist Tag, I only get the first name.
I tried Replace "\" with",", but that does not work.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2021, 9:34am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-exporting-artist-tag/51939/2 "2021-02-11T09:34:17Z")
If the selected file has multiple fields of the same type, e.g., two artist fields, the field values are displayed separated by the multiple-field separator `\\` (double backslash), e.g., `Artist 1\\Artist 2`.
The multiple-field separator is not stored in the tag field and only used for displaying multiple fields.
You can export all of the artists using `$meta_sep(artist,', ')`.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2021, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-exporting-artist-tag/51939/3 "2021-02-11T14:04:03Z")
In addition to Florian's answer you can press ALT + T on such tracks. Then you can see that your 3 artists in the example are stored in multiple tags with the same name.
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### Author:  [@Bernard](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Bernard)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2021, 9:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-exporting-artist-tag/51939/4 "2021-02-12T09:58:02Z")
> [@Florian](#):
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> `$meta_sep(artist,', ')`.
Thanks, but does this only work for one file? What if I select multiple files?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-exporting-artist-tag/51939/5 "2021-02-12T15:02:51Z")
> [@Bernard](#):
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> What if I select multiple files?
Then how do you export the tag data?
$meta\_sep() merges all tag fields of the same type to a single string - for the current file. Next file, next string.
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### Author:  [@Bernard](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Bernard)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2021, 4:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-exporting-artist-tag/51939/6 "2021-02-12T16:42:19Z")
I would like something like
René Kollo, Robert Heger, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan, Luc Sels, Jan Pots
(See my example)
That is all artists from all files.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-exporting-artist-tag/51939/7 "2021-02-12T16:47:55Z")
So you want to write a list of all artists from all files to all selected files?
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### Author:  [@Bernard](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Bernard)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2021, 4:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-exporting-artist-tag/51939/8 "2021-02-12T16:50:02Z")
That is exactly what I want!
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-exporting-artist-tag/51939/9 "2021-02-12T17:02:38Z")
I doubt that this is possible as MP3tag always only knows the current files and does not remember what other data the other files contained.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-exporting-artist-tag/51939/10 "2026-02-09T12:29:04Z")