# Trying to replace "\\\\" in a tag

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trying-to-replace-in-a-tag/57283
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 12, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trying-to-replace-in-a-tag/57283 "2022-05-12T17:17:39Z")
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### Author: ![Happy-Max](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e480ec/32.png) [@Happy-Max](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Happy-Max)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trying-to-replace-in-a-tag/57283/1 "2022-05-12T17:17:39Z")

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Hi everybody,

I've tried and tried, but nothing happens...

I want to change the "artist" tag (e.g. Artist1\Artist2) and put the second part in the field "comment". So I've tried convert tag-\>tag but nothing happens! There must be a problem with the "\".

Can anybody help me please?

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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2022, 5:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trying-to-replace-in-a-tag/57283/2 "2022-05-12T17:20:09Z")

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See e.g. here:

> [@Replacing Double-back-slash With Semi-colon-Space](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-double-back-slash-with-semi-colon-space/17673):
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> Sorry if this is explained elsewhere. I could not find it. Tags like Composer and Style have up to several values (e.g. Michael Preston Barr\\Dion McGregor or World Fusion\\Latin Jazz\\Afro-Cuban\\Afro-Cuban Jazz\\Cuban Traditions) MP3tag only displays the first value in the list and I do not see the rest of the values. I wish to convert from \\ to ; (semi-colon followed by a space) as a list separator. MP3tag displays all the values when saved like Michael Preston Barr; Dion McGregor or …

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### Author: ![Happy-Max](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/e480ec/32.png) [@Happy-Max](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Happy-Max)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trying-to-replace-in-a-tag/57283/3 "2022-05-12T20:00:00Z")

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Thanks a lot! I have searched the forum, but only for "\\" and not for "double-back-slash" 🤪

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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: [June 11, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trying-to-replace-in-a-tag/57283/4 "2022-06-11T20:00:45Z")

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