# Batch remove of text in album field
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-remove-of-text-in-album-field/46356
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 7, 2019, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-remove-of-text-in-album-field/46356 "2019-09-07T12:19:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@beynym](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/beynym)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2019, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-remove-of-text-in-album-field/46356/1 "2019-09-07T12:19:24Z")
How can I remove any text between square brackets in the Album field? I'd like to change _[1969] Abbey Road_ to _Abbey Road_. Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2019, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-remove-of-text-in-album-field/46356/2 "2019-09-07T12:22:51Z")
Just use the search function and you will find:
> [@Remove square brackets](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-square-brackets/2968):
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> Hi, I have many files where the title tag is missing, and is just reported as the filename tag - e.g Filename [William Orbit]-Ravel Pavane, Ttitle [William Orbit]-Ravel Pavane Is it possible to remove all the text within the square brackets and the following dash, leaving just the title in the title field? Thanks Dave slight_smile
Replace TITLE with ALBUM for your case.
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### Author:  [@beynym](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/beynym)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2019, 12:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-remove-of-text-in-album-field/46356/3 "2019-09-07T12:30:59Z")
Thanks for your quick reply, but the solution you mentioned doesn't work for some reason. When I type:
_Action type:_ **Replace with regular expressions**
_Field:_ **ALBUM**
_Regular expression:_**^[.\*?]**
_Replace matches with:_
_[1969] Abbey Road_ does not change into _Abbey Road_
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-remove-of-text-in-album-field/46356/4 "2019-09-07T14:31:43Z")
> [@beynym](#):
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> _Regular expression:_ **\[1\]**
Use `^\[\d+\] `
instead
* * *
1. .\*?
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-remove-of-text-in-album-field/46356/5 "2019-09-07T14:51:14Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> Use `^\[\d+\]` instead
or use `\[.*?\]` to remove every content in square brackets (not only numbers) and remove the square brickets itself where ever they are - not only at the beginning of the album name.
(It seems, that square brackets needs to be escaped with `\[` and `\]` actually.)
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### Author:  [@beynym](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/beynym)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-remove-of-text-in-album-field/46356/6 "2019-09-07T15:04:34Z")
Thank you, that did the trick!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-remove-of-text-in-album-field/46356/7 "2026-02-09T12:28:14Z")