# Changing Small Words Case
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/changing-small-words-case/4416
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 3, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/changing-small-words-case/4416 "2007-02-03T15:35:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@flix](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/flix)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/changing-small-words-case/4416/1 "2007-02-03T15:35:27Z")
Hello, fellow taggers, and sorry for probably asking an already anwered question (though i tried my best to find so).
I'll get straight to the point:
I like my files to have small words like of, and, the, a, etc... in lower case, and i don't seem to find out a solution that can be "space sensitive" since the first word of the file must be in upper case.
Example:
06 - John Willians - Star Wars The Phantom Menace Soundtrack - The Trip To The Naboo Temple And The Audience With Boss Nass
should be:
06 - John Willians - Star Wars The Phantom Menace Soundtrack - The Trip to the Naboo Temple and the Audience with Boss Nass
My casing ethic is somewhat complicated, but it doesn't really matter if i can get some string that works
out with this.
Any help is very apprecieted and thank you all very much in advance.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2007, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/changing-small-words-case/4416/2 "2007-02-03T20:56:29Z")
You can use a "Replace with regular expressions" action:
[/t/2745/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/2745/1)
Maybe this still needs some tweaking for your case but your example and the explanation contradict a little.
Just say what's missing
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### Author:  [@flix](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/flix)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/changing-small-words-case/4416/3 "2007-02-03T23:08:34Z")
Hello dano, and thanks for your reply.
Sorry for not being very clear. What i really need is to get small words like a, of, and ,the, or, etc... to start with a low case letter instead of a capital letter, but i don't want the first word of each "field", if it is a small word, to be lower case (that's what i was trying to say with space sensitive,[the example wasn't good really good at all was it? i do use spaces after my traces¬¬], but it was just something very simple i had in mind). As i sad, my casing ethic is somewhat complicated(even for me), and i'm deeply sorry if i wasn't very clear.
Unfortunately the information on link you posted didn't worked at all, but thank you very much anyway.
I hope this post help and i'm looking forward for an answer.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2007, 12:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/changing-small-words-case/4416/4 "2007-02-04T00:38:31Z")
Well if the action is made/used correctly it should do what you want:
TITLE: The Trip To The Naboo Temple And The Audience With Boss Nass
afterwards:
TITLE: The Trip to the Naboo Temple and the Audience with Boss Nass
_Action type:_ **Replace with regular expressions**
_Field:_ **\_TAG**
_Regular expression:_ **\s(a|the|of|to|an|and|with)(?=\s)**
_Replace matches with:_ **$lower($0)**
[] case-sensitive comparison
You put your "small words" into the brackets seperated by |
The \s stuff makes sure the words are only lowered if preceeded and followed by a space.
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### Author:  [@flix](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/flix)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2007, 4:34am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/changing-small-words-case/4416/5 "2007-02-05T04:34:44Z")
I got it working! Thank you very much.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/changing-small-words-case/4416/6 "2026-02-09T12:20:08Z")