# Reorder artist tag with action

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reorder-artist-tag-with-action/69406
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 13, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reorder-artist-tag-with-action/69406 "2025-08-13T14:24:02Z")
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### Author: ![AgreementElevate770](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@AgreementElevate770](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AgreementElevate770)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reorder-artist-tag-with-action/69406/1 "2025-08-13T14:24:02Z")

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Hi, for context I have lots of music files from the same artist, a lot of them are collabs and I’d like to set their name as the first artist tag, instead of the other artist(s) they collabed with.

for example, I have 5 tracks of BoB, this is how the artist tag order looks like:

1. Track #1 artist tag order: Alice\\Steve\\BoB
2. Track #2 artist tag order: Johnny\\BoB\\Curtis
3. Track #3 artist tag order: BoB\\Larry\\Paige
4. Track #4 artist tag order: Howard\\BoB\\Mike
5. Track #5 artist tag order: Steve\\John\\BoB

Is it possible to create an action to have all the tracks above have BoB as the first artist in the artist tag field, but keeping all the order in their order, so the above would look like this after running the action:

1. Track #1 artist tag order: BoB\\Alice\\Steve
2. Track #2 artist tag order: BoB\\Johnny\\Curtis
3. Track #3 artist tag order: BoB\\Larry\\Paige
4. Track #4 artist tag order: BoB\\Howard\\Mike
5. Track #5 artist tag order: BoB\\Steve\\John

Any help would be appreciated, thank you 😁

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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: [August 13, 2025, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reorder-artist-tag-with-action/69406/2 "2025-08-13T14:31:08Z")

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For this particular ARTIST try Convert\>Tag-Tag or an action of the type "Format value"  
Format string: `BoB\\$replace('Alice\\Steve\\BoB',BoB,)`

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### Author: ![AgreementElevate770](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@AgreementElevate770](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AgreementElevate770)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reorder-artist-tag-with-action/69406/3 "2025-08-13T14:56:16Z")

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Used `BoB\\$replace(%artist%,BoB,) `as format string which works perfect. Thanks alot 🙂

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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: [August 13, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reorder-artist-tag-with-action/69406/4 "2025-08-13T15:19:30Z")

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I probably jumped a little short.  
It should be:  
Format string: `BoB\\$replace($meta_sep(artist,\\),BoB,)`

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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: [September 12, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reorder-artist-tag-with-action/69406/5 "2025-09-12T15:19:47Z")

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