Searhing artist in compilation albums

[ohrenkino]

What do the short-comings of players have to do with MP3tag?

If you want to append a string or field to the contents of another field, see the FAQs:

Actions and batch-operations

How to append the string " xyz" to the content of a tag field? Create a new action in an existing action group and choose Format value as action type. Field specifies the tag field the formatting rule should be applied to. Format string must have the field placeholder for the field selected above and the string which should be appended. Example: If you want to append the string " xyz" to the current value of the comment field: Action type: Format value Field: COMMENT Format string: %com…

If you really add the artist to the TITLE field, then consider to use a different separator between the 2 bits of data like the underscore - this would make it easier to separate the data later on, when you switch to players that can deal with compilations and you want to get clean fields back. The hyphen is also frequently part of the title so it may lead to unwanted results.

You could also see if setting the field COMPILATION to 1 helps your players to identify compilations.