# Remove numbers & dashes from title field

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-numbers-dashes-from-title-field/65590
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 13, 2024, 9:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-numbers-dashes-from-title-field/65590 "2024-08-13T21:54:53Z")
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### Author: ![Deadhead1973](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Deadhead1973](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Deadhead1973)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 9:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-numbers-dashes-from-title-field/65590/1 "2024-08-13T21:54:53Z")

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How can I remove numbers & dashes from multiple track at once, i know how to do them individually. In the TITLE field I want to remove them, multiple files at once  
example  
03 - song name  
04 - song mane  
05- song name

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### Author: ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2024, 5:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-numbers-dashes-from-title-field/65590/2 "2024-08-14T05:26:37Z")

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To get the TITLE  
`song name`  
from the TITLE  
`03 - song name`

you can try it with an Action "Guess Values"  
Source Format:  
`%TITLE%`  
and  
Guessing pattern:  
`%dummy% - %TITLE%`

![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/7/3/736b50eeb3c22d19faf6c019df7f8e605624c0e2.png)

For your example  
05- song name  
the guessing pattern is:  
`%dummy%- %TITLE%`

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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2024, 5:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-numbers-dashes-from-title-field/65590/3 "2024-08-14T05:55:57Z")

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> [@LyricsLover](#):
>
> you can try it with an Action "Guess Values"

I would use Format value or Convert\>Tag-Tag for TITLE  
Format string: `$regexp(%title%,\d+\s*-\s*(.*),$1)`  
which should work for a number and any amount of spaces in front and behind the hyphen.  
I hope we are not talking about the filename.

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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, 12:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-numbers-dashes-from-title-field/65590/4 "2026-02-09T12:30:19Z")

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