# Using single value from multivalue field

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-single-value-from-multivalue-field/15443
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [January 29, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-single-value-from-multivalue-field/15443 "2014-01-29T18:21:14Z")
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### Author: ![wolfsong](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/bc79bd/32.png) [@wolfsong](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/wolfsong)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-single-value-from-multivalue-field/15443/1 "2014-01-29T18:21:14Z")

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I'm trying to create an action that takes the 1st value from **ARTIST** and populates the **ALBUMARTIST** field.

Right now I have:

```
Format Value
Field: ALBUMARTIST
Format String: $meta(artist,0)

```

Using this, I'm still getting every value from ARTIST. I also noticed that **$meta()** isn't in the list of functions in the Actions dialog.

Any ideas?

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