# Deleting numbers from a song title

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/deleting-numbers-from-a-song-title/69985
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 12, 2025, 8:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/deleting-numbers-from-a-song-title/69985 "2025-10-12T08:20:49Z")
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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2025, 9:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/deleting-numbers-from-a-song-title/69985/4 "2025-10-12T09:17:27Z")

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Filenames are no tags (metadata). They are filenames.  
So what about the suggestion to harvest the existing data and start from there?

Also, there is a post in the FAQs:

> [@Actions and batch-operations](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-and-batch-operations/967/11):
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> How to remove/trim leading track numbers? Action type: Replace with regular expressions Regular expression: ^\s\*\d+\s\*-\s\* Replace matches with: This regular expression removes the track number from 01 - Anything.. so that only Anything... remains. ^ matches the beginning of the string. Then any numbers of whitespaces \s\* followed by numbers from 0-9. The \s\*-\s\* part removes the hyphen and any whitespace characters around it.

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