# Inserting hyphen (anywhere) in Title
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/inserting-hyphen-anywhere-in-title/69660
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 10, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/inserting-hyphen-anywhere-in-title/69660 "2025-09-10T11:36:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@vmcreator](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/vmcreator)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/inserting-hyphen-anywhere-in-title/69660/1 "2025-09-10T11:36:10Z")
Hello MP3TAG Community,
I have been successful with some Convert and Actions to mass change music tracks etc.
However I have not worked out how to insert a hyphen in my customized Title(s) e.g:
Title = Whole Lotta Love (1969) change to Whole Lotta Love - (1969)
NOTE - The customized Title is primarily for compilation albums and the - (track release date) will always be at the same suffix position.
I tried some Right$ attempts but to no avail (wrong syntax) messages !
I have observed solutions in the community for this against filename but not found a solution for Title?
A solution would be greatly appreciated my friends 🙂
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2025, 11:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/inserting-hyphen-anywhere-in-title/69660/2 "2025-09-10T11:38:43Z")
Please tell us the original TITLE and then your future customized TITLE with inserted hyphen.
Do you ask for:
OLD: `Whole Lotta Love (1969) change to Whole Lotta Love (1969)`
NEW: `Whole Lotta Love (1969) change to Whole Lotta Love - (1969)`
So you want to insert a hyphen in front of the last brackets including a year - included in space hyphen space?
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### Author:  [@vmcreator](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/vmcreator)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2025, 11:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/inserting-hyphen-anywhere-in-title/69660/3 "2025-09-10T11:45:15Z")
Hi LyricsLover, Yes that is correct. Thank you for your response.
(Fre-ac CD Ripper sometimes populates the Title having gleaned the information from CDDB) puts the year suffix in.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2025, 11:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/inserting-hyphen-anywhere-in-title/69660/4 "2025-09-10T11:51:14Z")
One way to get from
OLD: `Whole Lotta Love (1969)`
to
NEW: `Whole Lotta Love - (1969)`
would be using Convert Tag -\> Tag with
Field: TITLE
Format string:
`$regexp(%TITLE%,(.*) (\(\d*\)),$1 - $2)`
This regular expression would match everything before a space and followed by an opening bracket followed by digits and a closing bracket and add a `-` between both capturing groups.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2025, 11:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/inserting-hyphen-anywhere-in-title/69660/5 "2025-09-10T11:53:44Z")
> [@vmcreator](#):
>
> Title = Whole Lotta Love (1969) change to Whole Lotta Love - (1969)
Wouldn't this be a plain "Replace" for TITLE
Search: (
Replace with: - (
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2025, 11:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/inserting-hyphen-anywhere-in-title/69660/6 "2025-09-10T11:55:39Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> Wouldn't this be a plain "Replace" for TITLE
This would replace every opening bracket with space hyphen opening bracket.
Maybe this is what the OP asked in the topic title "anywhere in Title"?
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### Author:  [@vmcreator](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/vmcreator)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2025, 12:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/inserting-hyphen-anywhere-in-title/69660/7 "2025-09-10T12:01:18Z")
Brilliant LyricsLover, That works exactly how I want it. Thank You.
I could of just left the Title without the hyphen. The reason being I needed the change was I have already modified all my compilation albums with example below:
Track 1 Title = Whole Lotta Love - (1969)
Track 2 Title = When The Levee Breaks - (1971)
but the compilation album Led Zeppelin “Remasters” %year% is 1990. Hence my customized track titles have a Release Date suffix.
When listening to compilations with friends, I sometimes get asked when was this track released? By displaying the track release date in the Title, it shows on all players 🙂
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### Author:  [@vmcreator](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/vmcreator)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2025, 12:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/inserting-hyphen-anywhere-in-title/69660/8 "2025-09-10T12:07:54Z")
I had to manually insert the Release Date for every compilation album as I understand MusicBrainz, Discogs etc etc do not show Release Dates in their databases just %year% ☹
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2025, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/inserting-hyphen-anywhere-in-title/69660/9 "2025-10-10T12:08:10Z")
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