Some of my tracks have multiple album artists (separated by \\), e.g., Lata Mangeshkar\\Kishore Kumar. I would like to replace the same with only the first artist, i.e., Lata Mangeshkar. I tried the following regular expression (.*)(\\), which worked on online regex testing websites, but is doing n…

Looks like Format Value works. Here's what worked for me: [image]

There is also Remove Duplicate Fields which leaves the first field from the tag. [image] Remove Duplicate Fields – Mp3tag Documentation Documentation on the Remove Duplicate Fields action type that can be performed as Quick Action or as reusable workflow from Action Groups. Mp3tag is th…

@arsaboo Did you have any need to keep the additional text that is being removed in another tag? In your example this would be the artist Kishore Kumar info. You would have to address this prior to removing it from the AlbumArtist tag field, or it will be unrecoverable.

Ideally, it would be useful to retain the information, but Plexamp does not work with multiple album artists and it creates more problems.

You could move the additional details to the Artist field if this does not create any issues with your software. Typically when multiple Artist tag fields are used, only the first one is used for apps that don't support the extra ones. That way you at least have the data remaining in case you want t…

Unfortunately, Plex does not quite work that way. It will use all the artists: [image] I like the suggestion of moving the extra information to the artist field. So, now need to figure that out.

You can use Artist, or any other field including a "Custom" personal field if you like. It is highly unlikely that a player will use this info except for a select few that may let you use it in the Artist field. My point above was more to make sure you keep that data somewhere, as once it is gone it…

[image] arsaboo: I like the suggestion of moving the extra information to the artist field. Or you could try other separators like the semicolon or the simple slash and see what your player makes of them. To me it looks like your player can actually read all the fields. So it would be worth …

[image] ohrenkino: Or you could try other separators like the semicolon or the simple slash and see what your player makes of them. A personal note regarding the options for separators: The semicolon ; is the one I have found in my experience is most accepted on Android (GameMAD and Poweramp…

[image] MotleyG: Unfortunately the same can’t be said for any of the iStuff from Apple, iTunes has no support whatsoever for any multiple fields. Indeed - perhaps this discussion on separators sheds some more light on the topic: [image] Should I use ";" or "\\" or "-" as a se…

Plexamp does not seem to like ;. Weirdly enough, \\ works as a separator in Plexamp for the genre field. I wish there is some standardization on these basic things.

Regex help - retain only the first artist

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ohrenkino June 9, 2022, 5:19am 11

Indeed - perhaps this discussion on separators sheds some more light on the topic: