# Remove composer & artist from %work%

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-composer-artist-from-work/49652>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 18, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-composer-artist-from-work/49652 "2020-07-18T21:31:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![sernyl23](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sernyl23/32/7903_2.png) [@sernyl23](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sernyl23)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-composer-artist-from-work/49652/1 "2020-07-18T21:31:22Z")

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For an easy use of my classical collection in Foobar, I created a %work% tag (like an "opus"), because many CDs contain several works ; I wanted to compare them easily, and it ...works ;-).  
So I first filled an initial work tag, then added the composer and the artist (or conductor), so now my new %work% field was composed this way : %composer% / initial work - %artist%  
e.g. : _Schumann / Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 - Laloum A._  
But this personal recipe is not convenient with other readers, as in my car or in Volumio.  
They can display the album, the title, but not the work.  
So I would like to clean this %work% tag.  
...to get only the middle :  
_Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6_  
Ultimately I will easily merge the work in the title, with the Tag-\>tag converter, and will get a relatively short and readable title on small screens, like this :  
_Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 - I. Lebhaft_  
(the composer and artist names being already displayed in the album name)

I need a batch command, for it would be applied to ...2TB of flac files.  
(15 years of wrong tagging !)  
Many thanks by advance,

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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:** [July 18, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-composer-artist-from-work/49652/2 "2020-07-18T22:06:27Z")

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> [@sernyl23](#):
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> composed this way : %composer% / initial work - %artist%

You could use an action of the type "Guess value"  
Source: %work%  
Target: `%composer% / %work% - %artist%`  
This will update also the field COMPOSER and ARTIST  
If that is not the desired way and only the work part should be left over:  
Target: `%dummy% / %work% - %dummy%`

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**Author:** ![sernyl23](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sernyl23/32/7903_2.png) [@sernyl23](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sernyl23)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 10:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-composer-artist-from-work/49652/3 "2020-07-19T10:33:34Z")

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Thanks for the suggestion.

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-composer-artist-from-work/49652/4 "2026-02-09T12:28:43Z")

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