# Clear composer from title
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-composer-from-title/5462
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 18, 2007, 6:10am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-composer-from-title/5462 "2007-09-18T06:10:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Rarotonga](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Rarotonga)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2007, 6:10am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-composer-from-title/5462/1 "2007-09-18T06:10:35Z")
How to clear the composer's name (already in %COMPOSER%) from %TITLE% ?
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### Author:  [@Mizery\_Made](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Mizery_Made)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2007, 9:01am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-composer-from-title/5462/2 "2007-09-18T09:01:22Z")
You'll need to supply a little more information then that. So the composer is displayed in the title, eh? What's it look like:
Title (Composer)
Composer - Title
Title - Composer
Title\_Composer
etc.
This information will aid in someone helping you with this problem. 😉
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### Author:  [@Rarotonga](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Rarotonga)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2007, 1:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-composer-from-title/5462/3 "2007-09-18T13:27:38Z")
> [@Mizery\_Made](#):
>
> You'll need to supply a little more information then that. So the composer is displayed in the title, eh? What's it look like:
> Title (Composer)
> Composer - Title
> Title - Composer
> Title\_Composer
> etc.
> This information will aid in someone helping you with this problem. 😉
The title contains the composer's name at the beginning, separator is a mix of spaces, commas, and/or dashes. (There may be something before composer , but I can delete that)
e.g. :
Stravinsky - Song of the Nightingale - I. Presto
Chopin - Préludes
313 - Schumann - Cello Concerto in A minor - I. Nicht zu schnell
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet - Con Moto
I guess I have to delete (="replace regular expression" by nothing) the characters before the first dash (+dash and space after) ? but don't know what exactly write for that !
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### Author:  [@Rarotonga](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Rarotonga)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2007, 11:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-composer-from-title/5462/4 "2007-09-22T11:35:14Z")
> [@Sernyl](#):
>
> /.../
> I guess I have to delete (="replace regular expression" by nothing) the characters before the first dash (+dash and space after) ? but don't know what exactly write for that !
So, what is the regular expression for selecting the characters before a ...dash (for instance) ?
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2007, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-composer-from-title/5462/5 "2007-09-22T12:20:01Z")
^.+?\s-\s
on
Stravinsky - Song of the Nightingale - I. Presto
-\>
Song of the Nightingale - I. Presto
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### Author:  [@Rarotonga](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Rarotonga)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2007, 5:11am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-composer-from-title/5462/6 "2007-09-25T05:11:48Z")
- Thanks a lot !
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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/clear-composer-from-title/5462/7 "2026-02-09T12:20:30Z")