# Feature Request - Multiple Spaces **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-multiple-spaces/71289 **Category:** Mac **Created:** [May 17, 2026, 10:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-multiple-spaces/71289 "2026-05-17T10:44:19Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### 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: [May 18, 2026, 9:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-multiple-spaces/71289/4 "2026-05-18T09:09:36Z")
This would be only one of the many possibilities of untidy data. Apostrophes (and all their invalid variations) would be a similar problem, lower case following a full stop, and probably many more. And for these cases there is the filter that is user-defined and may cater for all the individual spaces. In collections with several thousands of files, a visual inspection would simply be unfeasible or extremely time consuming. The filter works in seconds. The following step would be, I assume some method to remove these characters or replace them - so it would require an action as stepping through all the files manually would, again, be extremely time-consuming whereas the action would finish the job in minutes, if not seconds. There is a section in the FAQs on how to remove leading and trailing spaces: > [@Actions and batch-operations](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-and-batch-operations/967/10): > > How to remove/trim leading and trailing spaces [Video tutorial for these actions](http://www.vimeo.com/7756545) Leading spaces: Action type: Replace with regular expressions Field: \_TAG Regular expression: ^\s+ Replace matches with: ^ matches the beginning of the string. Then \s+ searches for all whitespaces till a different char occurs. The whitespaces found will be replaced by nothing and, thus, deleted. Trailing spaces: Action type: Replace with regular expressions Field: \_TAG Regular expression: \s+$ Replace matc… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-multiple-spaces/71289)._