I have a lot of mp3's that have the artist's name at the end of the file name, how they got there I have no idea. An example would be "My Best Friend's Girl - Cars.mp3". I'm wondering if there is a way to remove these. The only way I know is to do it manually using "Rename" then use the backspace key. I'm not a programmer. I'm sure there's a way to do it in "Actions" but what the syntax would be I have no idea. Can anyone help me with this? Thanx in advance.
What do your tag fields show?
(The file name is no tag)
If there is no data in the tag fields, it is definitely clever to import as much information from the file name as possible before you delete it.
Try Convert>Filename-Tag
Format string: %title% - %artist%.
ohrenkino - The TAG field - Title - shows Only the name of the song. I like the clean look of my files. Having the name of the artist at the end of the FILENAME, you might as well do without the TAG field - ARTIST. Granted, once the artist's name is removed you could end up with duplicate FILENAMES but with different ARTIST, but I've taken care of that as I already have duplicate FILENAMES with different ARTIST names. If there isn't a way to remove the artist's name from the end of the filename then I'll just continue doing whit I've been doing.
If you want only the contents of TITLE to be used as filename, try
Convert>Tag-Filename
Format string: %title%
If this does not work, please show a screenshot of a real file with the contents of the tag field TITLE visible and the function that you used to rename the file.
I just wanted to let you know your solution works. I really do appreciate it. There are a lot of things I don't know about MP3Tag but with guys like you it sure does make it easier to find things you don't know about. Thanks again.