# How to remove part of Title for a number of songs
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-for-a-number-of-songs/10955
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 16, 2010, 5:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-for-a-number-of-songs/10955 "2010-10-16T05:17:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Oldrider](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Oldrider)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2010, 5:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-for-a-number-of-songs/10955/1 "2010-10-16T05:17:14Z")
G'day, I need to remove part of the Title in a number of songs.
for example: Current title is [Jumping Jack Flash - Mean Streets]
I would like to remove "- Mean Streets"
I now do this manually for each song but if I had to do many of these, can I automate this in some way?
Something like select the 10 relevant songs, in the title field, enter [remove "- Mean Streets"]
If you recommend using a script, please kindly tell me how to use the script in mp3Tag.
Thanks in advance, OR
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2010, 11:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-for-a-number-of-songs/10955/2 "2010-10-16T11:00:53Z")
Are the brackets part of the title?
Is it always " - Mean Streets" or do you need a general " - some text" ?
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### Author:  [@Oldrider](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Oldrider)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2010, 7:02am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-for-a-number-of-songs/10955/3 "2010-10-17T07:02:17Z")
Thanks dano,
No, the brackets are not part of the title. I used them as simply brackets to separate the title of the song from the sentence.
I need " - some text". Mean Streets was just an example.
Regards, OR
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2010, 10:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-for-a-number-of-songs/10955/4 "2010-10-17T10:53:57Z")
Make a [new action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1):
_Action type:_ **Guess values**
_Source format:_ **%title%**
_Guessing pattern:_ **%title% - %dummy%**
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### Author:  [@Oldrider](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Oldrider)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2010, 4:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-for-a-number-of-songs/10955/5 "2010-10-20T16:16:08Z")
Thanks Dano. This worked but with slight change
In Guessing Pattern, I used %title% - Mean Streets which worked. %title% - %- Mean Streets% did not work.
Thanks again, OR
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-for-a-number-of-songs/10955/6 "2010-10-20T16:28:50Z")
I wrote %title% - %dummy%
so use exactly that.
%dummy% is a special field. You can use it to discard everything at its position.
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### Author:  [@Oldrider](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Oldrider)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2010, 10:12am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-for-a-number-of-songs/10955/7 "2010-10-21T10:12:59Z")
That worked just fine..
I didn't know %dummy% is a special field. I thought you meant "dummy" as in variable.
Thanks once again, OR
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### Author:  [@brownox](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/brownox)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-for-a-number-of-songs/10955/8 "2012-12-05T16:17:58Z")
> [@dano](#):
>
> Make a [new action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1):
>
> _Action type:_ **Guess values**
> _Source format:_ **%title%**
> _Guessing pattern:_ **%title% - %dummy%**
Thanks! This is trick works friggin great!
So much time saved.
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### Author:  [@xmjpgx](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/xmjpgx)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-for-a-number-of-songs/10955/9 "2014-08-02T18:03:38Z")
> [@dano](#):
>
> Make a [new action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1):
>
> _Action type:_ **Guess values**
> _Source format:_ **%title%**
> _Guessing pattern:_ **%title% - %dummy%**
**Awesome, thank you so much sir.**
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### Author:  [@Chrytobug](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Chrytobug)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2022, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-for-a-number-of-songs/10955/10 "2022-04-25T15:50:21Z")
> [@dano](#):
>
> Make a [new action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1):
>
> _Action type:_ **Guess values**
> _Source format:_ **%title%**
> _Guessing pattern:_ **%title% - %dummy%**
This was brilliant! I used it for an audiobook that had 93 files. So glad I saved myself an hour of manually updating the titles.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-for-a-number-of-songs/10955/11 "2022-04-25T18:33:13Z")