I have a song filename as John Doe - Song Title (original song)
I want the tag to read John Doe - Song title
I want to remove the "(Original Song)" part of the title.
This is an example and not all songs will have the same info in the (). I want to remove the () as well as the various info contained within the ().
Is this even possible? Can this be done in MP3TAG?
Thanks
See e.g. this thread from just 1 day ago:
I don't understand what that means. Can you please explain that?
What didn't you understand?
The clue can be found here:
Try Convert>Filename-Filename
Old filename pattern: %1 (%2)
New filename pattern: %1
what does that mean?..if that is the solution. I dont understand what that means. Can you explain it with the example i gave? I see %Artist% - %title% no numbers
Where do you see that?
A look at the documentation may also be a good idea
What do the numbers mean??
Simple Example
Rename songs from old filename
001 Artist - Title.mp3
to new filename, i.e., omitting the leading numbers.
Artist - Title.mp3
Old filename pattern:
%1 %2 - %3
New filename pattern:
%2 - %3
What does the numbers mean?
D:\Music\Artist - Album\01 Track Title (2024_EDIT).mp3
to new filename
D:\Music\ARTIST - Album [2024]\01. Track Title (EDIT).mp3
Old filename pattern:
%1 - %2%3 %4 (%5_EDIT)
New filename pattern:
D:\Music$upper(%1) - %2 '['%5']'%3. %4 (EDIT)
Never mind. I used this %artist% - %title% (%dummy%
And that removed everything after the title. ..no numbers..just words..I still don't understand what the numbers are supposed to mean. Fields perhaps.
In which function did you use that?
The %dummy% usually appears only in Convert>Filename-Tag - but that leaves the filename as it is.
So it is not clear to me what you really want to do
Yes, up at the top of the software, there is Filename to Tag. I am wanting the tag info only to ready the artist and title. Nothing else. I want to remove any and all information other than the artist and title in the artist and title section of the tag (in the artist and title columns in MP3Tag). I am getting the tag information from the file name. I dont know how else to explain it. And when im doing that, I see no reference to numbers in there, thats why the numbers confused me. When i add that what i put above, it works.
There is also Tag to Filename, Filename to Filename and Textfile to Filename ...
OK, so you want to import data from the filename to the tag fields?
This did not look like it when you first stated
If you really only want to fiddle with the filename, then Convert>Filename-Filename is the way to do it and you keep the extra information in the field TITLE
Yes. Thank you for your help.