Delete parts before / after specific characters

[music-laura]

Hi all,

I tried so many things and read some old forums here, but it didn’t help.

My filename is always the same for an audiobook:

Book title - subtitle (year, artist)

Example: ABC - DEF (2026, Joe Roe)

I copy the filename and insert in: title, interpret, and album.

Via grouping actions, I want:

Titel:

ABC

(Delete everything with and after “ _ “)

Interpret:

Joe Roe

(Delete everything until “(“ and the next 5 characters, and delete the last character)

Album:

ABC - DEF

(Delete everything with and after “ (“)

Can anybody help me here?

[LyricsLover]

One suggestion is

a) Convert Filename - Tag with
Formatstring:
%title% - %album% (%year%, %artist%)

followed by

b) Convert Tag - Tag with
Field: ALBUM
Format string:
%title% - %album%

[ohrenkino]

@music-laura

I copy the filename and insert in: title, interpret, and album.

Why don't you put the data with Convert>Filename - Tag into the correct fields straightaway?
Format string: %album% - %title% (%year%, %artist%)

[music-laura]

Thank you

LyricsLover and ohrenkino.

I didn’t know that this function exist.

However, I can’t choose this option in the grouping actions area, right? I would prefer a 1 click solution at the end

To make it more specific why I came up with my initial idea above:

The folder name is: Book title - subtitle (year, artist)

The filename: Book title (year, artist)

This is because I like when the filename is short, and sometimes the subtitle is really long

So what I do is:

1. I create the folder name: Book title - subtitle (year, artist)

2. Copy the folder name and use it for the filename; however, delete the subtitle manually with the keyboard.

3. mp3tag: put the file in it, insert the whole long name “Book title - subtitle (year, artist)” into title, interpret, and album and start deleting by each the irrelevatn part.

I know this is not efficient, but with your suggestion, I couldn’t find the option of “filename - tag” in the group action section. Is there one? If yes, I could use your suggestion and as the last step: make filename %title% (%year%, %artist%). And done

[ohrenkino]

@music-laura

I couldn’t find the option of “filename - tag” in the group action section.

That is why we wrote

@ohrenkino

Convert>Filename - Tag

and

@LyricsLover

Convert Filename - Tag

The function can be found in the Convert menu.

If you want to include the folder in your search for data, expand the
Format string: %title%\%album% - %dummy% (%year%, %artist%)

And to get your process right: it should be the other way round: you fill the tag fields first and then create filenames and folder names from it.
See also the documentation:

Renaming Files based on Tags - First Steps – Mp3tag Documentation

The converters and its various incarnations should be known to you since this thread:

Delete in Title "(Remastered in year xxxx)"

i searched in the forum but didn't find a solution. some albums have at the end of the title brackets which includes "remastered", like (remastered in 2020) (remastered in 2022) (remastered in new york) (2016 remastered) (remastered edition) how can i create an action for a title with the logic: "delete the brackets and the text within in case it contains the word remastered"?

[LyricsLover]

@music-laura

So what I do is:

1. I create the folder name: Book title - subtitle (year, artist)
2. Copy the folder name and use it for the filename; however, delete the subtitle manually with the keyboard.
3. mp3tag: put the file in it, insert the whole long name “Book title - subtitle (year, artist)” into title, interpret, and album and start deleting by each the irrelevatn part.

I would recommend solving it this way:
a) Manually name your file with the "longer" version as Book title - subtitle (year, artist)
b) Let Mp3tag fill the tags as mentioned above from your filename with Convert Filename - Tag
c) Let Mp3tag create your foldername and rename your filename inside the folder name.

or as an alternative, you could

a) Fill the book title, the subtitle, the year and the artist directly in the matching fields TITLE, ALBUM, YEAR and ARTIST of your file
b) Let Mp3tag create your foldername and let Mp3tag rename your filename inside the folder name as you like it.

[music-laura]

@ohrenkino

The converters and its various incarnations should be known to you since this thread:

I read this of course, but again, I did not fully get the logic and it was not working.

However, now it works and I thank you all for the fast reply.