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…

[image] Richard127: Mostly used after converting Filename to Tag 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% …

Here is an example action that removes leading track numbers (incl. spaces and the hyphen): [image] Actions and batch-operations FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) How to remove/trim leading track numbers? Action type: Replace with regular expressions Regular expression: ^\…

That's great. Thanks. I also found another way, so all's good. Thanks for your help.

[image] Richard127: I also found another way 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.

Deleting "some" text from a title

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Florian August 23, 2024, 4:59am 2

Here is an example action that removes leading track numbers (incl. spaces and the hyphen):