# Remove Album from Title

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-album-from-title/7357
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 21, 2008, 6:11am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-album-from-title/7357 "2008-10-21T06:11:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![invise](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/839c29/32.png) [@invise](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/invise)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2008, 6:11am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-album-from-title/7357/1 "2008-10-21T06:11:08Z")

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How do you remove the value of one field from another field? If the title of a song is "Red" and the album name is "Blue", then the format of the title is

Blue Red  
ALBUM TITLE  
%album% %title%

I have tried the Action, Replace with regular expression, to no avail.

Field: TITLE  
Regular expression: ^%album%\s+  
Replace matches with:

This attempt is similar to the one listed [here](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/5) for removing a leading "The" from a title. But of course it uses the reference "%album%" instead of the absolute "The". Is using references not possible with the Replace feature?

Since the [same help topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/5) suggests using complicated regular expressions for removing leading track numbers rather than a simple reference to %track%, it looks like references and replacement don't go together. If so, how else can I accomplish my goal?

(p.s. The Excel function SUBSTITUTE can do what I'm trying to do in mp3tag. In the Old\_text parameter of SUBSTITUTE, you can enter either a literal string "Blue" or enter a cell reference "B1" which may contain the string "Blue".)

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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: [October 21, 2008, 7:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-album-from-title/7357/2 "2008-10-21T07:39:28Z")

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You can use action type Format value:  
_Action type:_ **Format value**  
_Field:_ **TITLE**  
_Format string:_ **$replace(%title%,%album% ,)**

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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/remove-album-from-title/7357/3 "2026-02-09T12:21:10Z")

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