# Replacing causes case conversion
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-causes-case-conversion/63457
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 17, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-causes-case-conversion/63457 "2024-01-17T13:50:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@bollemanneke](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bollemanneke)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-causes-case-conversion/63457/1 "2024-01-17T13:50:36Z")
Hi everyone, hope someone can help.
I’m trying to replace the format of my artist fields.
Currently: BPO/Karajan
What I want: BPO, Karajan
However: every time I try a replace action that replaces / with a comma and a space, I get the result: BPO/karajan.
What I am doing wrong?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-causes-case-conversion/63457/2 "2024-01-17T13:54:37Z")
I cannot reproduce any case conversion.
Which action do you use with which parameters?
A screenshot might help even more.
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### Author:  [@bollemanneke](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bollemanneke)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2024, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-causes-case-conversion/63457/3 "2024-01-17T14:04:14Z")
I can't do a screenshot, sorry. I went to the action menu and created a new action. I selected the field ARTIST. I asked to replace / with , . Nothing more. I tried to see if it worked with the case-sensitive option, but no.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-causes-case-conversion/63457/4 "2024-01-17T14:08:10Z")
> [@bollemanneke](#):
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> I can't do a screenshot, sorry.
See here:
> [@Hints for asking Support Requests](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hints-for-asking-support-requests/56190#use-screenshots-to-exemplify-the-issue-2):
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> If you need support using Mp3tag, you can help the community members that are about to support you in finding a solution or workaround to your problem, by following these simple guidelines. Be descriptive, also in what you’ve already tried Please give a short explanation what’s not working as expected or what you’re trying to achieve. It’s best to know any details about the problem at hand and especially, what steps you’ve already tried to solve it by yourself. Helpful information also includ…
and I still can't reproduce it
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2024, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-causes-case-conversion/63457/5 "2024-01-17T16:02:43Z")
> [@bollemanneke](#):
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> Currently: BPO/Karajan
Perhaps in your actual existing tag the slash character is not actually the standard keyboard one.
Try a copy/paste from the actual tag with that particular example when pasting into the "Original" field for the Replace action.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-causes-case-conversion/63457/6 "2024-01-17T16:08:15Z")
Good idea @MotleyG
Or @bollemanneke could copy the content of his ARTIST here in this Input box
[https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatisit.html](https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatisit.html)
and then press the "Identify"-Button
This would show if the `/` character is a special slash ([as there are many of them](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(punctuation)#Encoding)).
Maybe there are even "invisible" characters?
The usual slash would look like this:
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2024, 5:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-causes-case-conversion/63457/7 "2024-01-17T17:43:22Z")
Honestly, I doubt that replacing really changes a case even if the slash is something else.
You say, you
> [@bollemanneke](#):
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> ... went to the action menu and created a new action
did you by any chance have ticked also the sample action "Case conversion" so that that action is also carried out?
As screenshot of the Actions window would show that
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2024, 6:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-causes-case-conversion/63457/8 "2024-01-17T18:24:14Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> Honestly, I doubt that replacing really changes a case even if the slash is something else.
This is very true, I didn't notice that case change on my first look.
What I was noting was the desired Replace was to change from "/" to ", " still ended up with "/"
> [@bollemanneke](#):
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> Currently: BPO/Karajan
> What I want: BPO, Karajan
> ...result: BPO/karajan
The resulting "/k" in this case versus expected ", K" is even more bizarre.
@bollemanneke A screenshot with the Extended Tags window of this file would be very helpful to provide a solution. Perhaps you have a mix of ID3 and APE tags, or your Action is mixing up one field for another?
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### Author:  [@bollemanneke](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bollemanneke)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-causes-case-conversion/63457/9 "2024-01-17T21:13:38Z")
Thanks, my mistake. It was a long day, I hadn't switched off case conversion...
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2024, 12:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-causes-case-conversion/63457/10 "2024-01-18T00:35:56Z")
Did you resolve the issue with converting the slash to a comma and space?
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2024, 12:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-causes-case-conversion/63457/11 "2024-02-17T00:35:59Z")
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