# Help removing numbers in Title fields **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [July 2, 2014, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-removing-numbers-in-title-fields/15870 "2014-07-02T14:38:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pdun459](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pdun459](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pdun459)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-removing-numbers-in-title-fields/15870/1 "2014-07-02T14:38:53Z")
I'm brand new to Mp3tag and have been trying to change the Titles field for some of my files. I've searched Help and the Forum but am a bit overwhelmed. I attached a picture to help illustrate what I'm doing. What I'd like to do is select all the files and remove the numbers that precede the titles. The filenames also have numbers, so I'm not having any luck with Conversion unless there's something I'm not doing right. If I convert from Filenames to Titles I've still got numbers. I was reading in Help about Replace and Regular Expressions. Is there a script that could do this? Sorry to be so ignorant, but I can't figure out how to run Replace much less create a script. Could someone please help me out? I'm using Mp3tag 2.60. Thanks. 🙂 Edit: After posting I noticed that in the picture the Genre field says "I'm not in Love" without numbers. It's a long story, but please disregard that. All the Genre fields say the same thing so a Tag-Tag conversion isn't possible either as far as I know. ![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/2/2a3a45bdd793a7047b382f493eef44b2143168fc.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-removing-numbers-in-title-fields/15870/2 "2014-07-02T15:16:01Z")
There sure are many possibilities to cut the digits and the following space from the title. Here is one of them: Convert Tag-Tag Field: TITLE Format String: $cutleft(%title%,3) Thos only works if there are 2 leading digits. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-removing-numbers-in-title-fields/15870/3 "2014-07-02T15:55:49Z")
If you use the Convert\>Filename - Tag you could enter the following mask: %track% %title% To remove leading numbers in TITLE use an action of the type "Replace with regular expression" Enter as search string: ^\d+ Leave replace string empty. ---
**Author:** ![pdun459](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pdun459](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pdun459)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-removing-numbers-in-title-fields/15870/4 "2014-07-02T16:27:15Z")
poster, your method worked, really appreciate it. I've been struggling with this a long time and was starting to think it was going to be impossible. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pdun459](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pdun459](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pdun459)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-removing-numbers-in-title-fields/15870/5 "2014-07-02T16:46:16Z")
ohrenkino, I'm not finding any way to use "Replace with regular expression." Is it in the Action menu? Tools? How do you do it? I'm sure it's simple I just don't see it. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![pdun459](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pdun459](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pdun459)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-removing-numbers-in-title-fields/15870/6 "2014-07-02T23:03:08Z")
I finally figured it out. Very helpful tool. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-removing-numbers-in-title-fields/15870/7 "2026-02-09T12:25:07Z")
Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC