# Remove artist from %title% **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-artist-from-title/67180 **Category:** Mac **Created:** [January 17, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-artist-from-title/67180 "2025-01-17T16:25:36Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 8
### Author: ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster) #### Post date: [January 18, 2025, 6:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-artist-from-title/67180/8 "2025-01-18T06:26:24Z")
> [@pixelchef](#): > > After cleaning this up, is there some way to get iTunes to pick up these file name changes or re-sync the metadata in the player? Hoping to avoid using dougscripts for setting filename to track title... If you want o change the filename with the new content of your tags you can use _Convert → Tag - Filename_. This also gives you an immediate preview. Build yourself a new filename with the placeholders of the tags, for example %artist% - % %title% It its not advisable to concentrate on filenames and only change them. You should rather see that you put your tag contents in order. "01 Dear Angie - Beatles" is definitely not a proper content of a title. The title in this case is "Dear Angie". Once you have your tags-contents in order it is very easy to build a new filename like shown above. To update the contents of iTunes see here: > [@Force iTunes To Update Track Info After Using MP3TAG](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/force-itunes-to-update-track-info-after-using-mp3tag/58778): > > For those with IOS devices or are simply using iTunes as your primary music manager, you will find that mp3tag is far more flexible and powerful than the built-in Get Info editor. However any changes made outside of iTunes will not automatically be reflected into any music files that have already been loaded. There are two ways to get these changes to be reflected into iTunes. Open the Get Info panel for each track. This will force iTunes to grab the latest metadata info and overwrite whatev… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-artist-from-title/67180)._