# Search and Replace Artist and Artist in Title.....?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/search-and-replace-artist-and-artist-in-title/11921
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 26, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/search-and-replace-artist-and-artist-in-title/11921 "2011-04-26T16:55:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@kittmaster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kittmaster)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/search-and-replace-artist-and-artist-in-title/11921/1 "2011-04-26T16:55:33Z")
I have a bunch of tracks where my artist name is the same as within the title itself. I need to remove it from the title part without corrupting the title part. How do I use the %artist% field to subtract the exact match from the %title% field?
Here is one of my examples:
Artist:GRANDMASTER FLASH & MELLE MEL
Title: GRANDMASTER FLASH & MELLE MEL - WHITE LINES
Not sure how to make it search and replace the match....
Thoughts?
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### Author:  [@stevehero](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/stevehero)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/search-and-replace-artist-and-artist-in-title/11921/2 "2011-04-26T17:17:07Z")
If Your files are all in the format you say they are then this will do the trick.
_Action type:_ **Guess values**
_Source format:_ **%title%**
_Guessing pattern:_ **%artist% - %title%**
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2011, 5:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/search-and-replace-artist-and-artist-in-title/11921/3 "2011-04-26T17:36:27Z")
> [@kittmaster](#):
>
> %artist% ... exact match from the %title% field?
I am a friend of filters as I have my doubts that a pattern I think I found is really prevailing.
So:
I would apply a filter to reduce the number of files really to the ones that match your criterion.
"$strstr(%title%,%artist%)" IS 1
And then, as the artist is already in the title and they are both the same, it is easy to simply overwrite the artist.
So a custom made action of the type "guess value" for
Title
and the value
%artist% - %title%
should do it.
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### Author:  [@kittmaster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kittmaster)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/search-and-replace-artist-and-artist-in-title/11921/4 "2011-04-26T17:37:37Z")
> [@stevehero](#):
>
> If Your files are all in the format you say they are then this will do the trick.
>
> _Action type:_ **Guess values**
> _Source format:_ **%title%**
> _Guessing pattern:_ **%artist% - %title%**
Works perfect, thank you. I was trying to do it with the replace command, keep forgetting about guess values
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/search-and-replace-artist-and-artist-in-title/11921/5 "2026-02-09T12:23:03Z")