# text1 - text2
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/text1-text2/13268
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 30, 2012, 7:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/text1-text2/13268 "2012-03-30T19:21:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Seyss](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Seyss)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2012, 7:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/text1-text2/13268/1 "2012-03-30T19:21:30Z")
Hello,
I have many songs with %TITLE% = Artist - Title
I want to set %ARTIST% = Artist, and %TITLE% = Title
How can I do this using Format Converter or any other tool?
To avoid mistakes as eating Artist names like "Lady ga-ga", the separator is " - ".
Thanks in advance.
PS: mp3tag is an amazing software!
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### Author:  [@Seyss](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Seyss)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/text1-text2/13268/2 "2012-03-30T19:57:28Z")
Wooo I got it.. after some heavy maneuvers I got it!
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### Author:  [@stevehero](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/stevehero)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/text1-text2/13268/3 "2012-03-30T20:29:42Z")
You might want to post your solution to let other people learn also.
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### Author:  [@Seyss](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Seyss)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2012, 10:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/text1-text2/13268/4 "2012-03-30T22:13:03Z")
I doubt someone will ever need this but let's go.
The songs were as below:
Artist: Various - Singles
Title: DJ Antoine - Welcome To St. Tropez
I copied the %title% to some bullshit tag like %lyricist% as a backup.
On replace with regular expression I converted %title% to $2 on expression (._) - (._)
Then I copied %lyricist% to %artist%.
Then I did the same thing on replace with regular expression but with $1.
BAAAAM
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/text1-text2/13268/5 "2012-03-31T20:04:34Z")
You could transfer the data without the fussing about with a "bullshit tag" by using actions of the type "Import tag field".
You start with %artist% and the mask
%albumartist% - %album%
and continue with the same type of action only this time for %title%:
%artist% - %title%
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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/text1-text2/13268/6 "2026-02-09T12:23:45Z")