Reformat Artist tag for use in Album Artist tag

[ohrenkino]

See the FAQs to see how to copy the contents from one field to another:

Actions and batch-operations

How to copy one field value to another field? Example how to copy the content of the ARTIST field to the ALBUMARTIST field: Create a new action in an existing action group or make a new action group. Action type: Format value Field: ALBUMARTIST Format string: %artist% Note: If you want to copy all possible values of a field (in case you have multiple artist fields), the internal scripting function $meta_sep can be used in the format string, e.g., $meta_sep(artist,\\\\)

see e.g. this thread on the problem when swapping name parts:

How to rearrange artist name

I have a Karaoke Library with 20,000 songs that I'm cleaning up. Examples of the way the majority of the songs are formatted: Jackson, Alan - Don't Rock the Jukebox Down, 3 Doors - Be like that I need to clean up the rest of the songs to the same format. How can I write a script that will change: Allman Brothers Band - Ramblin' Man to the same format. In this example it would be changed to: Band, Allman Brothers - Ramblin' Man. [:huh:] I need to take last string of characters in the Art…