I have some titles that have "feat." followed by the featured artist. All of them are contained in a parenthesis (Ex: The one (feat. U2)). I wanted to remove the featuring artist protion and append that to the artist. I figured the best way to do this was to move the featured artist material temp…

[image] ohrenkino: What you could also try: copy the parenthesis from the title and copy it to the action and see whether it is actually a normal bracket or something else. This is exactly what I was just thinking. Either the brackets, or even the space character(s)? Using the suggested copy/…

Either the example you supplied with The one (feat. U2) or the guessing pattern %title% (%composersort%) does not match that what you typed in. I tried it and I ended up with The one in TITLE and feat U2 in COMPOSERSORT Are you sure that you used the correct type of action and not acciden…

Thanks ohrenkino! [Capture] Here you go. A little different example, as I was playing with different versions, but the concept is the same. This is very weird. As you can see it deposited "Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (feat. Barry Biggs)" into %composersort% but kept the complete title. It is…

TBH: I see a cramped tag panel - but as you know: this does not say anything about the fields behind the tag panel elements. The best dialogue for analysis is the extended tags dialogue Alt+T. That would also reveal duplicate fields etc. What you could also try: copy the parenthesis from the titl…

[image] ohrenkino: TBH: I see a cramped tag panel You liking a clean panel? I would have never guessed! :wink: [image] ohrenkino: What you could also try: copy the parenthesis from the title and copy it to the action and see whether it is actually a normal bracket or something else.This…

[image] esumsea: but when I just copied the "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (feat. Barry Biggs)" I tried this in Excel using the formula to grab Unicode (in Hex) and all of the spaces here were U+0020 (the correct code for the standard space). Did you copy/paste the quote above from your act…

You can the character code also in MP3tag in Convert>tag-tag with Format string: $ord() where you insert the character in question in the brackets

There are several ways to find the "offending" character. With spaces in particular, I'm always curious what was used, and why.

Thanks for this babelstone tip, this is a great resource and shows all characters in a string with their Unicode reference and description.

You're welcome. I use it for foreign characters like "白日出沒的月球（魚版）" too. Just to be sure... (For example: I did not even know that something like FULLWIDTH RIGHT PARENTHESIS exists :wink:) The second URL repeats every single character. That makes it easy to spot such special characters: [image]

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You can do that easily online, just copy & paste a string into tools like

https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatisit.html

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