# Help with Tag

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-tag/2224
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [August 24, 2005, 7:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-tag/2224 "2005-08-24T07:48:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![kindofblue](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/977dab/32.png) [@kindofblue](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kindofblue)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 7:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-tag/2224/1 "2005-08-24T07:48:21Z")

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Hello ppl. N00b here, need a little help. Let's say I have a track with TITLE tag containing the following:

Ocean City Girl [Album In The Clear (Nettwerk)]

How do I extract data from it to get artist, title and album tags so that I get:

Title: Ocean City Girl  
Album: In The Clear

Many thanks in advance.

Cheers,  
Kindofblue

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### Author: ![Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sebastian_mares/32/9285_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 8:03am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-tag/2224/2 "2005-08-24T08:03:44Z")

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You create a new action set, add an "Import Tagfields" (or whatever that's called in English) action and use the following configuration:

Source format: %title%  
Formatstring: %title% [%artist%]

If you want to remove the brackets, add a "Replace with regular expressions" action and replace \s\*(.\*) with nothing (leave the last field empty) in ARTIST.

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 8:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-tag/2224/3 "2005-08-24T08:20:43Z")

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If the formatstring is _%title% [%album% (%dummy%)]_  
it's done in one step.

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### Author: ![Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sebastian_mares/32/9285_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 9:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-tag/2224/4 "2005-08-24T09:25:29Z")

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> [@](#):
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> If the formatstring is _%title% [%album% (%dummy%)]_  
> it's done in one step.
> 
> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>

Ah, right.

BTW, the action type is "Guess values".

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### Author: ![kindofblue](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/977dab/32.png) [@kindofblue](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kindofblue)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-tag/2224/5 "2005-08-25T03:13:37Z")

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Thanks guys. Worked nicely. I also added a Replace to get rid of "Album:" from the ALBUM tag.

OT: How do I rename my Actions? Can't seem to do it via double- or right-click.

Thank you guys for your patience.

BR,  
kindofblue

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2005, 5:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-tag/2224/6 "2005-08-25T05:48:15Z")

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A "slow" double click. Like in Windows Explorer

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### Author: ![kindofblue](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/977dab/32.png) [@kindofblue](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kindofblue)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2005, 7:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-tag/2224/7 "2005-08-25T07:54:12Z")

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> [@](#):
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> A "slow" double click. Like in Windows Explorer
> 
> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>

Oh right. Silly me. Thanks Dano. 🙂