# Reformat Artist tag for use in Album Artist tag **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**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 14, 2020, 8:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reformat-artist-tag-for-use-in-album-artist-tag/50779/4 "2020-11-14T08:54:39Z")
> [@Kuchlei](#): > > Not much use. You may have overread that there is a link to > [@Regular Expressions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/regular-expressions/521/6): > > Another one, that switches first and last names (for instance, Jacques Brel will become Brel, Jacques): Regular Expression: ^(.+)\s(.+)$ Replace with: $2, $1 So technically, it is more or less clear what to do. I still don't see the use of doing it, esp. as you found so many exceptions yourself. > [@Kuchlei](#): > > Bob Moore & His Orchestra may be something that one could cope with. But what about Bell, Book & Candle Siouxie & The Banshees Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch The phantastic Alex Harvey Band An example: "Oliver Onions" is a band name, not an artist's name - how would that be transformed? Like an individual because it looks like forename/lastname or like a band because you "know" it is a band? Would "Uriah Heep" really be found easier under "Heep, Uriah", "Led Zeppelin" under "Zeppelin, Led"? "AC/DC" becomes "DC, AC/"? I seriously have my qualms about that. And as this apparently will only be applicable for the field ALBUMARTIST - how would you treat compilations - and find the artists in those? And if you always have to remember whether it actually is a band or an individual and then have to navigate to that part of the alphabet instead of just using the search of the player or the filter where type in the name that you can read on the record label this naming scheme will not facilitate the search but lead to confusion. Also, you would always have to modify the fields according to those rules - an additional step. I do not think that any of the web sources will actually prepare fields for this kind of transition. So I still think that, even though it is technically possible and MP3tag will do that in a jiffy, in respect to ease the handling of the collection it is a step backwards. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reformat-artist-tag-for-use-in-album-artist-tag/50779)._