This is a great program, and one of a handfull of programs keeping me booting Windows on a regular basis. It beats Linux Easytag with a hammer. Anyway, I'm wondering what the best way to remove a phrase that is in parenthesis from a Filename might be. I make my filename out of various tag element…

Do a RegEx replace on the filename using \s*(.*) as match and nothing as replace.

Thanks, Sebastian, that did the trick. Now I just have to figure out why so I can learn a bit more about regular expressions. :flushed:

\s* matches any number of spaces. ( matches a bracket (the charecter has to be escaped or otherwise MP3Tag thinks that it's the beginning of a group). .* matches any number of characters ) matches a bracket. So basically, we are looking for spaces folowed by a bracket followed by characters fol…

Thanks again, a book on the wish list should be Amazon.deing its way to MP3Tag as I type (seemed easier than messing with PayPal, since I don't have an account). Hopefully I navigated the German menus properly. I fooled around with the RegEx stuff before I posted, but didn't quite get the syntax …

I can't get this code to work as described. When testing, it tried to delete the filename. It does not removed backets and anything contained inside, despite creating a replace with regular expression using the code supplied. Why is this?

Please note that in old threads (like this one) sometimes some of the characters are swallowed up by the forum display parser. [image] Sebastian_Mares: \s*(.*) should read: \s*\(.*\)

Thank you, I did not realise! Kind of concerning..

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