# removing 2nd appearance of artist in title field..

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-2nd-appearance-of-artist-in-title-field/16773>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 30, 2015, 5:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-2nd-appearance-of-artist-in-title-field/16773 "2015-03-30T05:37:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![boogiebears](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@boogiebears](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/boogiebears)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 5:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-2nd-appearance-of-artist-in-title-field/16773/1 "2015-03-30T05:37:28Z")

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help,

i have several tracks in my collections i am trying to clean up tags for.. what i am trying to do is create an action that will compare the artist and title fields, and if the artist field appears in the title field.. i would like for it to be omitted. example below..

current track looks like this:

**artist: Morlack  
title: Ghetto Vaccination (Morlack 2014 Remix)**

id like it to look like this:

**artist: Morlack  
title: Ghetto Vaccination (2014 Remix)**

any help is appreciated. thanks!

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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:** [March 30, 2015, 5:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-2nd-appearance-of-artist-in-title-field/16773/2 "2015-03-30T05:43:39Z")

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You can use an action of the type "Format tag-field" for TITLE  
Format string: $replace(%title%,%artist% ,)

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**Author:** ![boogiebears](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@boogiebears](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/boogiebears)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 5:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-2nd-appearance-of-artist-in-title-field/16773/3 "2015-03-30T05:49:20Z")

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> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> You can use an action of the type "Format tag-field" for TITLE  
> Format string: $replace(%title%,%artist% ,)

perfect! it worked beautifully! thank you so much!

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**Author:** ![Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/zerow/32/11379_2.png) [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 12:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-2nd-appearance-of-artist-in-title-field/16773/4 "2015-04-08T12:06:12Z")

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> [@boogiebears](#):
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> [...]  
> current track looks like this:
> 
> **artist: Morlack  
> title: Ghetto Vaccination (Morlack 2014 Remix)**
> 
> id like it to look like this:
> 
> **artist: Morlack  
> title: Ghetto Vaccination (2014 Remix)**  
> [...]

Aside from the issue of removing unnecessary [doubled] information:

In this case it should be "mix", and not "remix"

Remix is something done by someone else, dome other DJ / produceder or musician from a second band. If a guy himself makes 10 version of one song and spreads them around on lets say 3 of his different albums / singles, then those are to be called mixes [and not remixes]

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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, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-2nd-appearance-of-artist-in-title-field/16773/5 "2026-02-09T12:25:37Z")

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Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC