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[jacobacci]

All person names in my library (album artist, artist, composer etc.) are lastname, firstname to allow for sorting in windows explorer. I now want to copy the person fields to the personsort fields (artistsort etc.) and then reverse the order of the normal fields to firstname lastname. The swap() function seems to do the opposite of what I want to achieve. Is there a function I can use to turn lastname, firstname into firstname lastname or do I need to use regex?

[Hendrik]

Unswap(), just a few lines below on the same wiki page.

[jacobacci]

Brilliant, thanks a lot

[jacobacci]

Unswap worked perfectly, thanks a lot.
I am currently testing unswap on a folder containing ca. 60k Files. I need to do unswaps on three fields:
=Unswap([ALBUMARTISTSORT])
=Unswap([ARTISTSORT])
=Unswap([COMPOSERSORT])
in order to unswap the Album Artist, Artist and Composer fields.
Writing the tags for each unswap takes around 15 minutes. Is there any way I can apply the three unswaps to the library first and then write the tags through to the files in one go?

[JimH]

Take a look at the wiki topic on Library Tools. 

Update tags from Library.

You can also set MC to always keep the tags updated.

[jacobacci]

You can also set MC to always keep the tags updated.

Ah, I had the option 'Update Tags when File Info changes' set to on, so as soon as I clicked enter on the formula, MC started writing the tags to disk.