# Clearing Artists and Title infos...
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clearing-artists-and-title-infos/5768
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 19, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clearing-artists-and-title-infos/5768 "2007-11-19T21:55:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clearing-artists-and-title-infos/5768/1 "2007-11-19T21:55:16Z")
I have a lot of MP3's that their file name are all correct (Artists - Title).
But a lot of them have their artists and title part filled with both artist and title...
So what I would like to do is like, from the file name, get the artist name and put it in the artist info
and get the title name from the file name, and put it in the title info.
How would I do that with the Actions? Right now I am using two replaces:
REPLACE "ARTIST":""-\>"Ataris"
REPLACE "TITLE":"Ataris - "-\>""
So I am removing the name of the artist from title and unknowns putting ataris, but I would have to do this hand by hand... so how would I automate that? 😃
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2007, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clearing-artists-and-title-infos/5768/2 "2007-11-20T15:12:21Z")
_Action type:_ **Guess values**
_Source format:_ **%\_filename%**
_Guessing pattern:_ **%artist% - %title%**
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clearing-artists-and-title-infos/5768/3 "2007-11-20T21:01:43Z")
Would you explain what each thing would do, so that next time I need to do something, I could do it myself ;D
Thanks! =\*
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clearing-artists-and-title-infos/5768/4 "2007-11-20T21:42:55Z")
By the way, how would I include the Album, even though I don't have any information on what the Album is?
I have a lot of songs with or just empty, and filling those by hand would not be fun.. 😛
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clearing-artists-and-title-infos/5768/5 "2007-11-21T19:51:11Z")
Guess values is like Convert \> filename - tag, but you can define the source format.
So with the source format you generate and temporary string and you parse it with the guessing pattern where you put the different parts to tag fields.
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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/clearing-artists-and-title-infos/5768/6 "2026-02-09T12:20:36Z")