Hello everyone. I'm trying to set up some actions to delete the 'featuring' part from the title by using regex. I'm a total newbie at this and have gotten quite far by searching the forums for help but for now I can't get the following to work: Current regex is Field: TITLE Regular Expression: \s…

Ah, my apologies. I was attempting to mend a problem you aren't facing. You would like a single artist field, not multiple. Instead, try this as the first part: Field: ARTIST Format string: %artist% featuring $regexp(%TITLE%,'^(.+?)\s+[[({]?(?:ft\.?|feat\.?|featuring)\s+([^][(){}]+)[])}]?(\s+.…

see e.g. here: [image] Complicated Field Editing Format Support Hello MP3TAG Community, I've recently done very basic tag edits with the help of this community. I'm now looking to create my ideal "End All Be All" tool. I've always put my files into a particular format th…

The second topic contained exactly what I needed to get rid of the 'featuring' from the title. Many thanks! I'm reorganizing my actions now and will then try to make an action to add the found string to the Artist tag before deleting it. These regex' are extremely powerful, but sometimes hard to '…

I was the OP of the first topic that ohrenkino linked, and using what I know as well as the second post he linked, I think your best bet might be using the following two part action: Field: ARTIST Format string: $meta_sep(artist,\\)\\$regexp(%TITLE%,'^(.+?)\s+[[({]?(?:ft\.?|feat\.?|featuring)\s+…

Sorry about multiple edits on my post, but now the format above should work properly.

Hello again, @krmerman342: The action for the TITLE field matches my current one exactly. Your proposal for the ARTIST field doesn't work the way it should however. E.g. with TITLE: songtitle (featuring feat_artist) ARTIST: main_artist the first action turn the ARTIST field into: main_artist…

@kramerman342 : Thank you so much, it's working perfectly now! I'm still trying to 'decrypt' the regex formulae, it's fascinating what you can do with them. Again thank you both very much for helping out! Wouter

Something I'd like to suggest that you may have already tried: https://regexr.com/ The website I linked may be inconsistent in some ways with what you input into MP3TAG, but it helped me a lot in making SOME sense out of what is happening "behind the scenes" of the regex. By hovering over your co…

@Zestje This new website I'm linking is nearly identical in appearance to the last one I linked, but seems to do a better job at tracking the function of parenthesis/brackets as well as giving you that same visual representation of what's happening in your specific text (your tag), which I've alrea…

@kramerman342 : Thank you very much, that website is amazing! Is really helped me understand the final bits of code.

Hey, I know that this post is solved, but this may just be a good spot for me to ask a question based on the regex that has already been used in this thread. We know that using this: Field: ARTIST Format string: %artist% featuring $regexp(%TITLE%,'^(.+?)\s+[[({]?(?:ft\.?|feat\.?|featuring)\s+([^…

Regex replace up to next bracket and move to artist

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