# Eliminate one set of parentheses and keep one
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/eliminate-one-set-of-parentheses-and-keep-one/13530
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 8, 2012, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/eliminate-one-set-of-parentheses-and-keep-one/13530 "2012-06-08T12:12:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@genghiskhan](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/genghiskhan)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2012, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/eliminate-one-set-of-parentheses-and-keep-one/13530/1 "2012-06-08T12:12:06Z")
Hi I have some files named like this
Blown Away (Feat. Styles P) (Produced By Giorgio Tuinfort).mp3
I would like to delete the second parentheses and all the information it contains.
But at the same time some files are like this.
I Can't Wait (Produced By Akon).mp3
In which case I want to delete all.
I know that I can fix the second example with:
Regular expression
(.+?)
But the directory contains both types of names.
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### Author:  [@genghiskhan](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/genghiskhan)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2012, 11:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/eliminate-one-set-of-parentheses-and-keep-one/13530/2 "2012-06-08T23:12:39Z")
Ok I found this
[/t/13480/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/13480/1)
In particular this post
['ft xx)' from Title to end of artist and remove '(prod. xxx)' from title](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/13480/4)
With that I get close but i want the (Feat.) to remain in the title and not be moved over to the artist.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2012, 7:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/eliminate-one-set-of-parentheses-and-keep-one/13530/3 "2012-06-09T07:58:20Z")
" ([^)]+).mp3$"
will only remove the last pair of parentheses.
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### Author:  [@genghiskhan](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/genghiskhan)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/eliminate-one-set-of-parentheses-and-keep-one/13530/4 "2012-06-09T23:19:54Z")
Thank You. I set it as Replace with regular expression and it kept erasing the .mp3 from the file name and therefore rendered them as extension-less files but I got around it adding a step to add .mp3 to the title. Thank you
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/eliminate-one-set-of-parentheses-and-keep-one/13530/5 "2026-02-09T12:23:53Z")