# too many co-artist field fix

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/too-many-co-artist-field-fix/17910>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [May 1, 2016, 10:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/too-many-co-artist-field-fix/17910 "2016-05-01T10:43:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![pezamigo](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/d9b06d/32.png) [@pezamigo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pezamigo)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2016, 10:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/too-many-co-artist-field-fix/17910/1 "2016-05-01T10:43:37Z")

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Example 1:

My Artist field looks like:

Rihanna ft. Beenie Man & Bounty Killer

I want to delete : **ft. Beenie Man & Bounty Killer**

and keep the first artist only. **Rihanna**

Example 2:  
My Artist field looks like:Justin Bieber ft. J Balvin

I want to delete : **ft. J Balvin**

and keep the first artist only. **Justin Bieber**

thanks for advance.greeting...

Field:  
RegExp:  
Replace with:

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**Author:** ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2016, 10:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/too-many-co-artist-field-fix/17910/2 "2016-05-01T10:56:01Z")

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Define an action.  
Type: Guess values  
Source format: %artist%  
Guessing pattern: %artist% ft. %dummy%

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**Author:** ![pezamigo](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/d9b06d/32.png) [@pezamigo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pezamigo)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2016, 7:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/too-many-co-artist-field-fix/17910/3 "2016-05-01T19:47:28Z")

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hello!!..  
thank you, I try right now...

.i did,but not working in example 1 but in example 2 is name and last name any idea for?

you say:  
example 1  
Type: Guess values  
Source format: %artist% = Rihanna ft. Beenie Man & Bounty Killer  
Guessing pattern: %artist% ft. %dummy% = Rihanna ft. Beenie Man & Bounty Killer ft. %dummy%

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**Author:** ![pezamigo](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/d9b06d/32.png) [@pezamigo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pezamigo)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/too-many-co-artist-field-fix/17910/4 "2016-05-01T21:55:17Z")

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> [@pezamigo](#):
>
> hello!!..  
> thank you, I try right now...
> 
> .i did,but not working in example 1 but in example 2 is name and last name any idea for?
> 
> you say:  
> example 1  
> Type: Guess values  
> Source format: %artist% = Rihanna ft. Beenie Man & Bounty Killer  
> Guessing pattern: %artist% ft. %dummy% = Rihanna ft. Beenie Man & Bounty Killer ft. %dummy%

OK I fing out the fix for example 1 Rihanna ft. Beenie Man & Bounty Killer ,,,only name whit out last name. what I did is:

step 0ne  
split field by separator: Field: artist separator: ft.  
step two  
gues values: source:%artist% gues value:%artist%

idk how I fix the example 2...

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**Author:** ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 2:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/too-many-co-artist-field-fix/17910/5 "2016-05-02T02:39:21Z")

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I don't understand the way you told us your solution.

The action "Guess Values" needs a unique separator which you have with " ft. " (space, Ft., space).  
I can see no difference in your 2 examples. Each one is seperated by this seperator and should work with the action I wrote.

Also I don't understand what you mean by 2 steps. There is no need to split by a seperator in a first step. The seperator is part of the action type "Guess Values".

> [@](#):
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> you say:  
> example 1  
> Type: Guess values  
> Source format: %artist% = Rihanna ft. Beenie Man & Bounty Killer  
> Guessing pattern: %artist% ft. %dummy% = Rihanna ft. Beenie Man & Bounty Killer ft. %dummy%

Could it be that you did not write %artist% in your action but the content of the placeholder %artist%?

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/too-many-co-artist-field-fix/17910/6 "2026-02-09T12:26:14Z")

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Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:26pm UTC