# Is there a way to parse join phrases when adding a new release?

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-parse-join-phrases-when-adding-a-new-release/541144
**Category:** Style
**Tags:** style, musicbrainz
**Created:** [July 7, 2021, 11:28am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-parse-join-phrases-when-adding-a-new-release/541144 "2021-07-07T11:28:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Totosaurio3279](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/totosaurio3279/32/25805_2.png) [@Totosaurio3279](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Totosaurio3279)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2021, 11:28am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-parse-join-phrases-when-adding-a-new-release/541144/1 "2021-07-07T11:28:52Z")

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Pretty self explanatory but I can add some context.  
I mainly add releases related to anime and videogames.  
A lot of them (if not most) are credited to “Character name (CV.Voice Actor Name)”  
When adding a new release using “Add cluster as release”, I have an already properly tagged artist field.  
I was wondering if there was a way to parse it so that musicbrainz detects where to split the text into two separate artists and leave “(CV.” as join phrase.  
I have realized this is the most time consuming part of adding new anime related releases so it’d be great if this was possible.  
Thanks!

EDIT: Figured adding a picture of what I meant was worth it. Currently when using “Add cluster as a release” the whole artist field taken as a single artist. I was wondering if it could be possible to batch split them like on the first track.

 ![image](https://community.metabrainz.org/uploads/default/original/3X/8/5/8538a073e01deff5ab0e1367d62ec743ed2ec047.png)

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### Author: ![chaban](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/chaban/32/111349_2.png) [@chaban](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/chaban)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2021, 6:13pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-parse-join-phrases-when-adding-a-new-release/541144/2 "2021-07-07T18:13:30Z")

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I guess [MBS-10859](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10859) could cover this.

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### Author: ![yindesu](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/b77776/32.png) [@yindesu](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/yindesu)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-parse-join-phrases-when-adding-a-new-release/541144/3 "2021-07-07T18:21:09Z")

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Currently, you’d need to write your own proprietary code to [seed the release editor](https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Development/Release_Editor_Seeding) with the tokenized artist credits.

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### Author: ![Totosaurio3279](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/totosaurio3279/32/25805_2.png) [@Totosaurio3279](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Totosaurio3279)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2021, 3:10am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-parse-join-phrases-when-adding-a-new-release/541144/4 "2021-07-08T03:10:12Z")

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Thanks, I didn’t know that could be done!  
Gonna check when I have some free time, seems interesting.

I also voted on the ticket linked by @chaban thanks for the heads up