# How to remove unwanted text from different tags

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**Created:** [April 10, 2021, 1:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-unwanted-text-from-different-tags/52772 "2021-04-10T13:09:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yurei](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/a87d85/32.png) [@Yurei](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Yurei)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 1:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-unwanted-text-from-different-tags/52772/1 "2021-04-10T13:09:43Z")

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Hello I have a problem.

my Title-Tag looks like:

"Peter Clines - Dead Moon - The beginning"

and my Album-Tag and my Artist-Tag look the same.

How can I remove the unwanted text in the Tag?

The result should look like this:

Title-Tag : The beginning  
Artist-Tag: Peter Clines  
Album-Tag: Dead Moon

Can i use that for that?  
Action type: Replace with regular expressions

Thx for your help

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**Author:** ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 1:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-unwanted-text-from-different-tags/52772/3 "2021-04-10T13:57:13Z")

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This can be done via a (Quick) Action [Import tag fields](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/quick-actions-and-action-groups/51882#import-tag-fields):

> **Import tag fields**  
> Source format: `%title%`  
> Formatstring: `%dummy% - %dummy% - %title%`

The same can be done for artist and album, where you'd use the respective placeholder for the source format and adjust the position of the `%dummy%` placeholder, which is used to ignore specific parts upon importing.

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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 10, 2021, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-unwanted-text-from-different-tags/52772/4 "2021-04-10T13:59:28Z")

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> [@Florian](#):
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> Source format: `%title%`  
> Formatstring: `%dummy% - %dummy% - %title%`

Or even shorter:  
Formatstring: `%artist% - %album% - %title%`

where you distribute the data to the other tag-fields - provided one tag field has the full scope.

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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 7, 2023, 7:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-unwanted-text-from-different-tags/52772/5 "2023-02-07T19:54:43Z")

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