# Reformat Artist tag for use in Album Artist tag

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reformat-artist-tag-for-use-in-album-artist-tag/50779
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 13, 2020, 9:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reformat-artist-tag-for-use-in-album-artist-tag/50779 "2020-11-13T21:55:56Z")
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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: [November 13, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reformat-artist-tag-for-use-in-album-artist-tag/50779/2 "2020-11-13T22:07:06Z")

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

> [@Actions and batch-operations](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-and-batch-operations/967/15):
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> 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](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions/967/2) 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](https://docs.mp3tag.de/scripting) 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](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-rearrange-artist-name/13887):
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> 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…

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