Hi there. I stupidly uninstalled MP3 tag to solve an issue but deleted all my settings as well. I had a way, using Actions, to delete a certain amount of text at the front of a title. Mostly used after converting Filename to Tag, where the resulting text would for example appear as (01 - Track Title) where I would want to delete the first five characters (including spaces) to show just: (Track Title). This can save lots of work editing every title in an album with many tracks. can anyone help with setting up the action to do this please?
Here is an example action that removes leading track numbers (incl. spaces and the hyphen):
If you use the converter Filename->Tag you should avoid to write the track number to the title at all.
I.e If your filename looks like this:
01 - Beatles - Help!.mp3
your format string should be
%track% - %artist% - %title%
or
%dummy% - %dummy% - %title%
if you only want to transfer the title.
Have a look at the help
That's great. Thanks. I also found another way, so all's good. Thanks for your help.
Which was? It would be nice for others who read this thread to see your solution
Using Tag > Tag then Title Field, then $cutLeft(%Title%,5) in the format string field. With the last digit ("5" in this case) being the number of characters you want to delete from the beginning of the Text.