# Please HELP !

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help/7809
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 21, 2009, 1:32am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help/7809 "2009-01-21T01:32:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![TheVeeMan](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@TheVeeMan](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TheVeeMan)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2009, 1:32am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help/7809/1 "2009-01-21T01:32:43Z")

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How do I Remove part of a file name.

What I have:

Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion.mp3

What I want:

Sweet Emotion.mp3

So in all my mp3's, how do I remove all words up to and one space behind the - ?

I need to remove the artist and the - and just keep the song name

Thanks in advance

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2009, 7:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help/7809/2 "2009-01-21T07:08:20Z")

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Use menu Convert \> Filename - filename  
Old mask: %1 - %2  
New mask: %2

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### Author: ![TheVeeMan](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@TheVeeMan](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TheVeeMan)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help/7809/3 "2009-01-21T14:34:52Z")

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Awesome Awesome Awesome Worked perfect !!!

Thank you so much... gonna safe me a ton of time changing all of them !

TheVeeMan

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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, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-help/7809/4 "2026-02-09T12:21:19Z")

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