# Part of Filename

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/part-of-filename/2431
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 30, 2005, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/part-of-filename/2431 "2005-10-30T12:53:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![UKEFC](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/8491ac/32.png) [@UKEFC](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/UKEFC)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2005, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/part-of-filename/2431/1 "2005-10-30T12:53:21Z")

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I guess this question has been asked numerous times but I cant see it anywhere.

How do I take just part of a filename and derive just the artist, title etc as seperate values in their own right?

Example, file name is "Billboard Top 100 Hits Of 1961 - 001 - Dion - Runaround Sue.mp3"

How do I extract just the artist name (Dion) and populate the artist column in MP3tag. Similarly, how would I extract just the song title (Runaround Sue) and populate just the title column?

Hope you can help.

Thanks.

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### Author: ![Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sebastian_mares/32/9285_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2005, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/part-of-filename/2431/2 "2005-10-30T13:00:43Z")

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To copy "Dion" to the artist field, use **%dummy% - %artist% - %dummy%**. For the other task, **%dummy% - %dummy% - %title%** should do the job. 🙂

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### Author: ![UKEFC](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/8491ac/32.png) [@UKEFC](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/UKEFC)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2005, 1:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/part-of-filename/2431/3 "2005-10-30T13:09:21Z")

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Great - thanks.

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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/part-of-filename/2431/4 "2026-02-09T12:19:29Z")

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