# Tag Swapping
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-swapping/1221
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [August 15, 2004, 11:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-swapping/1221 "2004-08-15T11:17:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@baChoMp](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/baChoMp)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2004, 11:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-swapping/1221/1 "2004-08-15T11:17:14Z")
Assuming I am not blind or stupid or both (highly possible 🙂, the ability to swap tags would be a very handy feature. I used it alot in a previous application till I moved over to the most awesome MP3tag.
Swapping tags such as
• Title \<-\> Artist
• Artist \<-\> Album
• Title \<-\> Album
etc etc ...
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2004, 9:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-swapping/1221/2 "2004-08-18T21:05:29Z")
You can swap tags via the Converters in 2 steps or with an action
i think what you discoverd Rijkstra is a bug, but we have to see what Florian has to say about it
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2004, 6:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-swapping/1221/3 "2004-08-19T06:57:19Z")
Yes, when the 2 tags aren't already present in the filename, you must rename the file. So maybe it's even 3 steps 😉
Florian will not be back until September 2nd, he also entered it in the board calendar.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2004, 8:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-swapping/1221/4 "2004-08-25T08:28:07Z")
> [@](#):
>
> Assuming I am not blind or stupid or both (highly possible 🙂, the ability to swap tags would be a very handy feature. I used it alot in a previous application till I moved over to the most awesome MP3tag.
>
> Swapping tags such as
> • Title \<-\> Artist
> • Artist \<-\> Album
> • Title \<-\> Album
>
> etc etc ...
You can create an action Format value for all three cases, using the field **TEMP** as temporary storage for the first tag field.
Best regards,
~ Florian
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### Author:  [@overseastom](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/overseastom)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-swapping/1221/5 "2004-09-20T20:44:37Z")
Hello everyone, i'm trying to do something similar to baChoMp's first post on this thread, i think, in that i want to create a new tag based on combining the artist and title fields into one tag. This is so that it's easily filed on my iPod, instead of bloating the Artist listing field (i listen to lots of dj mixes you see, so nearly every cd is a compilation with a different artist for each track...). Here's exactly what i mean:
OLD TAG:
ARTIST- Lawn Chair Generals, TITLE- U Dirty EP (Wanderlust), ALBUM-Destination Australia 001 - CD 1 by Hipp-E
NEW TAG:
ARTIST- Hipp-E, TITLE- Lawn Chair Generals - U Dirty EP (Wanderlust), ALBUM-Destination Australia 001 - CD 1 by Hipp-E
I can easily enter in the new Artist info because that'll stay constant for the whole cd, but i need to preserve the old artist and title info into just one tag - any suggestions anyone? Thanks in advance, and great program Mr. Florian 😉
Tom
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2004, 10:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-swapping/1221/6 "2004-09-21T10:48:55Z")
Haven't you tried an Action with "Format value" ?
you just need to format the TITLE field with %artist% - %title%
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### Author:  [@overseastom](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/overseastom)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-swapping/1221/7 "2004-09-21T21:06:57Z")
thanks dano, i did that last night and it worked just fine. Thanks again, mate.
Tom e
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### Author:  [@ner](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ner)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-swapping/1221/8 "2005-08-23T19:21:19Z")
> [@](#):
>
> You can create an action Format value for all three cases, using the field TEMP as temporary storage for the first tag field.
>
> Best regards,
> ~ Florian
Hi all,
I'm trying to do swap the Artist and Title tags using Format Values and can't get it to work, I'm using an action of:
Format value "TITLE": %TEMP%
Format value "TITLE": %ARTIST%
Format value "ARTIST": %TEMP%
Could someone show me what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks
ner
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-swapping/1221/9 "2005-08-23T19:49:53Z")
> [@](#):
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to do swap the Artist and Title tags using Format Values and can't get it to work, I'm using an action of:
>
> Format value "TITLE": %TEMP%
> Format value "TITLE": %ARTIST%
> Format value "ARTIST": %TEMP%
>
> Could someone show me what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks
>
> ner
>
> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
This thread is one year old, but anyways...
Field is the target field, so you'd have to do:
Field: TEMP
Formatstring: %ARTIST%
Field: ARTIST
Formatstring: %TITLE%
Field: TITLE
Formatstring: %TEMP%
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### Author:  [@ner](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ner)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-swapping/1221/10 "2005-08-23T20:16:50Z")
Hi Sebastian,
Yeah I know it was an old thread but it was the only one I could find on the subject.
Thanks for your reply, it works great, I just couldn't get my head around it on my own 
Cheers
ner
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2005, 8:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-swapping/1221/11 "2005-08-23T20:18:06Z")
BTW, you might want to delete TEMP once you finished your task. 😉 Either do it as action or via [ALT+T]
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### Author:  [@ner](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ner)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-swapping/1221/12 "2005-08-23T20:35:44Z")
ahhh it all clicks into place now, for some unknown reason I was thinking TEMP put the tag into memory not another field ☹
Thanks again for your time.
ner
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 9:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-swapping/1221/13 "2005-08-24T09:49:17Z")
> [@](#):
>
> ahhh it all clicks into place now, for some unknown reason I was thinking TEMP put the tag into memory not another field ☹
>
> Thanks again for your time.
>
> ner
>
> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
You can also use a Remove fields action to remove the TEMP field 🙂
Best regards,
~ Florian
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### Author:  [@ner](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ner)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 11:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-swapping/1221/14 "2005-08-24T11:58:35Z")
Hi Florian,
Yeah that's what I used to remove the TEMP field 😃
ner
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 12:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-swapping/1221/15 "2005-08-24T12:00:00Z")
Oh, as I see above Sebastian has already suggested it 
Best regards,
~ Florian