# Operating with 2 sets of brackets
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/operating-with-2-sets-of-brackets/69478
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 20, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/operating-with-2-sets-of-brackets/69478 "2025-08-20T14:07:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Kev\_Vader](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Kev_Vader)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/operating-with-2-sets-of-brackets/69478/1 "2025-08-20T14:07:22Z")
Hi All - my first post!
I have a quick question regarding filenames with two sets of brackets.
I have a filename in the format:
01 - Kiss - God Gave Rock & Roll To You (Longer Version) (1992)
I would like to separate it up into the following fields:
Track: 01
Artist: Kiss
Title: God Gave Rock & Roll To You (Longer Version)
Year: 1992
Finding a way to keep the first bracketed text in the title and still extract the year correctly has me stumped. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!!
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### Author:  [@flowrian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/flowrian)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/operating-with-2-sets-of-brackets/69478/2 "2025-08-20T14:14:31Z")
Hi there
Select your files and go to filename \> tag (you can Alt+2 to shortcut it), and use :
%track% - %artist% - Title (%year%)
To understand, everything between %% will be used as info used for the tags
Everything which is not into a double %, will be spared, but it will be used as a “guide” or structure for the app to understand were it go so you have to write it or else the app will not understand how to deal with it
So %track% - %artist% - Title (%year%)
the first “ - “ will be skipped, the 2nd one too, the “ (“ before the year too, and the last “)” will be spared too
A good thing to help here, is alongside with you entering this '“formula”, mp3tag will show you the instant result with your file (just look bellow the windows)
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/operating-with-2-sets-of-brackets/69478/3 "2025-08-20T14:16:18Z")
@flowrian Please test your answer before posting.
The above solution does not work as you can see from the missing preview 😉
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### Author:  [@flowrian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/flowrian)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/operating-with-2-sets-of-brackets/69478/4 "2025-08-20T14:19:56Z")
> [@flowrian](#):
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> %track% - %artist% - Title (%year%)
Oh yes I see, the app catch the first “(“ so it think the %year% start here, I completely miss the main point sorry
Mhmm if I find a way I’ll tell you
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### Author:  [@flowrian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/flowrian)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/operating-with-2-sets-of-brackets/69478/5 "2025-08-20T14:22:58Z")
Not perfect but if you want a quick trick to obtain it before someone give you the perfect solution, you can :
%track% - %artist% - %title% (1992)
This way you will just miss the year tag, but you can put it manually after that in 2 seconds
Downside is you will have to change the year for every album so not friendly for mass tagging
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### Author:  [@Kev\_Vader](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Kev_Vader)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/operating-with-2-sets-of-brackets/69478/6 "2025-08-20T14:29:46Z")
Thanks for the fast replies!
I have a LOT of files I am operating on, so an elegant solution is what I’ve been trying to find.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/operating-with-2-sets-of-brackets/69478/7 "2025-08-20T14:40:54Z")
I would solve it with these 3 steps:
1.) Convert Filename -\> Tag with this Format string
`%track% - %artist% - %title%`
(this fills the year from the filename to your `TITLE` too!)
2.) Use Convert Tag -\> Tag for the Field `YEAR` with this Format string:
`$regexp(%TITLE%,(.*)\((\d{4})\)$,$2)`
(This fills the 4-digit year inside brackets at the end of `TITLE` into a new `YEAR` field.)
3.) Use Convert Tag -\> Tag for the Field `TITLE` with this Format string:
~~`$regexp(%TITLE%,(.*)\((\d{4})\)$,$1)`~~
`$regexp(%TITLE%,(.*) \((\d{4})\)$,$1)`
(This removes the space, the 4-digit year and the brackets at the end of `TITLE`)
It is nearly the same regular expression, just switch from `$2` to `$1` in the replace-part after the comma)
This would result in these 4 fields:
Please test it carefully.
And as always with regular expressions: They only works for the given specific use case!
**Update 29.3.2026**
To avoid a trailing space in the `TITLE`, please use the modified regular expression in step #3.
Thanks to @ohrenkino [for the fix](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/operating-with-2-sets-of-brackets-part-2/70963/2).
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### Author:  [@Kev\_Vader](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Kev_Vader)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/operating-with-2-sets-of-brackets/69478/8 "2025-08-20T22:52:40Z")
Thanks for that solution it works well!!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2025, 10:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/operating-with-2-sets-of-brackets/69478/9 "2025-09-19T22:53:08Z")
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