Hello I love mp3tag but I have a little problem. :sweat_smile: I need to remove the first characters of the title in thousands of files. Example: 1 - Track name 2 - Track name I need to remove up to "# -" so that it remains: Track name Track name Does anyone know if there is a way to delete…

see e.g. here: [image] How to remove track from filename? Support This expression removes leading numbers, dots, hyphens and also space characters from the filename. $regexp(%_FILENAME%,'^[\d.- ]+(.*)',$1) Use it with "[Alt-1] Tag-Filename" or with an action "Format valu…

I tend to avoid regular expressions, because I find them confusing. And so I'd use a simple format value action with the $cutleft function (i.e., $cutleft(%title%,3)). YMMV.

[image] jewahe: I tend to avoid regular expressions As there are so many ways that lead to Rome ... You could also try an action of the type "Guess value" Source: %title% Target: %dummy% - %title% [image] jewahe: $cutleft(%title%,3) would leave a leading space if the data is "1 -" …

[image] jewahe: And so I'd use a simple format value action with the $cutleft function (i.e., $cutleft(%title%,3)) You never have tracknumbers with 2 digits?

Delete a certain amount of characters at the beginning of the title

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ohrenkino January 16, 2021, 10:00pm 2

see e.g. here:

Instead of _FILENAME use TITLE and instead of Tag-Filename Convert>Tag-Tag