# Remove info from tag
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-info-from-tag/67032
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 3, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-info-from-tag/67032 "2025-01-03T16:51:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@DJJC](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DJJC)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-info-from-tag/67032/1 "2025-01-03T16:51:46Z")
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
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-info-from-tag/67032/2 "2025-01-03T16:53:02Z")
See e.g. this thread from just 1 day ago:
> [@Bulk Edit of Tags remove everything between ()](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-edit-of-tags-remove-everything-between/67026/8):
>
> You are right. So if the part in brackets is the last bit, then Old filename pattern: %1 (%2 would be better
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### Author:  [@DJJC](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DJJC)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2025, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-info-from-tag/67032/3 "2025-01-03T17:06:33Z")
I don't understand what that means. Can you please explain that?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-info-from-tag/67032/4 "2025-01-03T17:07:32Z")
What didn't you understand?
The clue can be found here:
> [@Bulk Edit of Tags remove everything between ()](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-edit-of-tags-remove-everything-between/67026/6):
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> Try Convert\>Filename-Filename Old filename pattern: %1 (%2) New filename pattern: %1 The TITLE is part of the tags... the filename is something that the OS needs to identify a file.
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### Author:  [@DJJC](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DJJC)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-info-from-tag/67032/5 "2025-01-03T17:10:38Z")
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
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-info-from-tag/67032/6 "2025-01-03T17:15:05Z")
> [@DJJC](#):
>
> I see %Artist% - %title% no numbers
Where do you see that?
A look at the documentation may also be a good idea
> **[Converters – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/converters/)**
>
> Converters. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
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### Author:  [@DJJC](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DJJC)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-info-from-tag/67032/7 "2025-01-03T17:19:06Z")
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)
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### Author:  [@DJJC](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DJJC)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-info-from-tag/67032/8 "2025-01-03T17:31:29Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-info-from-tag/67032/9 "2025-01-03T17:39:48Z")
> [@DJJC](#):
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> Never mind. I used this %artist% - %title% (%dummy%
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
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### Author:  [@DJJC](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DJJC)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-info-from-tag/67032/10 "2025-01-03T17:54:30Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-info-from-tag/67032/11 "2025-01-03T17:59:17Z")
> [@DJJC](#):
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> Yes, up at the top of the software, there is Filename to Tag
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
> [@DJJC](#):
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> I have a song filename as John Doe - Song Title (original song) ...
> I want to remove the "(Original Song)" part of the title.
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
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### Author:  [@DJJC](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DJJC)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-info-from-tag/67032/12 "2025-01-03T18:01:36Z")
Yes. Thank you for your help.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-info-from-tag/67032/13 "2025-02-02T18:01:47Z")
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