# How do I remove part of a tag

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-remove-part-of-a-tag/5325
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 20, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-remove-part-of-a-tag/5325 "2007-08-20T18:33:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![ChrisWad](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e480ec/32.png) [@ChrisWad](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ChrisWad)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-remove-part-of-a-tag/5325/1 "2007-08-20T18:33:39Z")

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How do I remove part of a tag after a certain character. For example, this is what the artist tag is currently set to:

Oceanic / Insanity  
Blue Pearl / Naked In The Rain

What I want to do is delete all characters before the /, so I'm left with just 'Insanity' and 'Naked In The Rain'. Is this possible?

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### Author: ![Da\_maniaC](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/da_maniac/32/5156_2.png) [@Da\_maniaC](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Da_maniaC)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-remove-part-of-a-tag/5325/2 "2007-08-20T22:53:23Z")

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I do not think this is possible because every song name contains different types of words before the / and a different amount too.

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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 21, 2007, 6:03am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-remove-part-of-a-tag/5325/3 "2007-08-21T06:03:46Z")

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Sure it is possible.  
One way:

_Action type:_ **Guess values**  
_Source format:_ **%artist%**  
_Guessing pattern:_ **%dummy% / %artist%**

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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, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-remove-part-of-a-tag/5325/4 "2026-02-09T12:20:27Z")

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