# Switching Last and First names of artists and composers
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/switching-last-and-first-names-of-artists-and-composers/8321
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 1, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/switching-last-and-first-names-of-artists-and-composers/8321 "2009-05-01T21:08:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@richpasco](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/richpasco)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/switching-last-and-first-names-of-artists-and-composers/8321/1 "2009-05-01T21:08:49Z")
I have a bunch of files in which artists and composers' names are tagged as "Last, First" and I want to re-tag them as "First Last". What's the fastest way to swith the names of in their respective fields?
For example, I currently have
Artist: Marriner, Neville
Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
and I want to convert them to
Artist: Neville Marriner
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Surely somebody's worked through this problem before. If it's a FAQ, I couldn't find it but would appreciate a pointer.
Thanks in advance,
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- Rich
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2009, 4:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/switching-last-and-first-names-of-artists-and-composers/8321/2 "2009-05-02T04:54:19Z")
This can be done via an action Replace with regular expression
_Field:_ **ARTIST**
_Regular expression:_ **(.+), (.+)**
_Replace matches with:_ **$2 $1**
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### Author:  [@richpasco](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/richpasco)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2009, 1:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/switching-last-and-first-names-of-artists-and-composers/8321/3 "2009-05-02T13:08:09Z")
Thank you! That worked perfectly--exactly as I wanted.
```
- Rich
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/switching-last-and-first-names-of-artists-and-composers/8321/4 "2026-02-09T12:21:31Z")