# Replacing Double-back-slash With Semi-colon-Space

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-double-back-slash-with-semi-colon-space/17673
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 22, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-double-back-slash-with-semi-colon-space/17673 "2016-02-22T01:40:27Z")
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### Author: ![Rijkstra](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/rijkstra/32/22_2.png) [@Rijkstra](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Rijkstra)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2016, 4:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-double-back-slash-with-semi-colon-space/17673/2 "2016-02-22T04:36:56Z")

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> [@ItHurtsWhenTCPIP](#):
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> I have tried many many different Action variations of:  
> **Field ld** : \_COMPOSER  
> **Original** : \x5C\x5C  
> **Replace with** : "; "  
> I have not been able to get an Action to work.
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The reason you can't replace those backslashes is that they only display as backslashes! In the binary file they display as field separators. Someone more tech-savvy than I will have to explain it. I inserted actual backslashes in Winamp and a simple REPLACE converts them. Mp3tag apparently only converts them to something else when it saves the tag. The real characters are probably not very user-friendly.

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