# Help With Renaming/Replacing

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-renaming-replacing/16796>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [April 3, 2015, 1:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-renaming-replacing/16796 "2015-04-03T13:01:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Bila1989](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/bila1989/32/9439_2.png) [@Bila1989](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Bila1989)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 1:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-renaming-replacing/16796/1 "2015-04-03T13:01:58Z")

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I have tracks with the title field formatted as "Song name - Movie it's from" but I want to change it to "Song name (Movie it's from)". So I want to replace the dash with brackets, how do I do that? Thanks.

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**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:** [April 3, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-renaming-replacing/16796/2 "2015-04-03T18:17:32Z")

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> [@Bila1989](#):
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> ...So I want to replace the dash with brackets, how do I do that? Thanks.

Load the files  
Select the files  
Create an action (quick) for TITLE  
Enter as search string: -  
Enter as replace string: (  
Execute the action.

If you want to enclose the last bit after the - with () then use an action of the type  
Replace with regular expression for TITLE.  
Enter as Search string: - (.\*)$  
Enter as replace string: ($1)  
Execute the action.

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**Author:** ![Bila1989](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/bila1989/32/9439_2.png) [@Bila1989](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Bila1989)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-renaming-replacing/16796/3 "2015-04-04T12:52:37Z")

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Thank you my friend.

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**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-with-renaming-replacing/16796/4 "2026-02-09T12:25:37Z")

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Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC