# Replace a \\\\ delimiter with a semi-colon

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-a-delimiter-with-a-semi-colon/60234>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 1, 2023, 5:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-a-delimiter-with-a-semi-colon/60234 "2023-03-01T05:14:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![AkelaMusic](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/cab0a1/32.png) [@AkelaMusic](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AkelaMusic)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 5:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-a-delimiter-with-a-semi-colon/60234/1 "2023-03-01T05:14:58Z")

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I recently started using Jellyfin, and it does not recognize multiple artists if the delimiter in the tag is "\". I am trying to replace all double backslashes in the artists tag with semi-colons, which Jellyfin does recognize.

I found this helpful convert tag-tag code in the forums that replaces a semicolon with backlashes.

**$replace(%ARTIST%,'; ','\\')**

So I changed it to:

**$replace(%ARTIST%,'\\','; ')**

But this does not replace the delimiter, and instead just erases all artists after the first one.

I have also tried the replace function with similar results. It doesn't seem like MP3tag, at least how I'm using it, is willing to replace the backslash delimiter with anything else.

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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 1, 2023, 6:10am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-a-delimiter-with-a-semi-colon/60234/2 "2023-03-01T06:10:44Z")

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See e.g. here:

> [@Can't replace "\\\\" with anything](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-replace-with-anything/54126):
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> On a lot of my files I have "\" as an artist separator in the artist and/or composer field (ex. Hans Zimmer\James Newton Howard) and I want to replace all instances of it with ", " but no matter what I try it doesn't work, I'm able to replace everything BUT those 2 characters.

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**Author:** ![AkelaMusic](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/cab0a1/32.png) [@AkelaMusic](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AkelaMusic)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 3:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-a-delimiter-with-a-semi-colon/60234/3 "2023-03-02T03:35:35Z")

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Replace didn't work, but the action merge duplicate fields did. My music players properly recognize it, too. Thanks for pointing that post out!

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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:** [April 1, 2023, 3:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-a-delimiter-with-a-semi-colon/60234/4 "2023-04-01T03:35:57Z")

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