# Need to remove first 2 characters from mp3's

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-to-remove-first-2-characters-from-mp3s/1528
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 12, 2004, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-to-remove-first-2-characters-from-mp3s/1528 "2004-12-12T17:17:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![AlexHaden](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7ba0ec/32.png) [@AlexHaden](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AlexHaden)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2004, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-to-remove-first-2-characters-from-mp3s/1528/1 "2004-12-12T17:17:04Z")

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Hello,

I ripped all my albums, so that the Track number was the 1st thing in the "track name tag"

And now i want to remove them, so im just left with the plain track name. Rather than spending hours doing this manually, is there anyway to use tis proggy to do this for me?

Thanks

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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: [December 12, 2004, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-to-remove-first-2-characters-from-mp3s/1528/2 "2004-12-12T17:49:33Z")

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Hi!

Simply set up a [new action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1) Replace with regular expression for the field **TITLE** and use ^\d\*\s\* as regular expression.

Just leave the last field empty.

Best regards,  
~ Florian

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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, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-to-remove-first-2-characters-from-mp3s/1528/3 "2026-02-09T12:19:17Z")

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