# Remove the same characters of all the tags **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [September 5, 2015, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-the-same-characters-of-all-the-tags/17203 "2015-09-05T14:51:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![poum](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@poum](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poum)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-the-same-characters-of-all-the-tags/17203/1 "2015-09-05T14:51:54Z")
Hi, I'm a french user of Mp3Tag. Since I changed my mp3 player (musicbee instead of foobar) I have a chinese character which was added to every tag. So, I'm looking for a method to remove it automatically. Does Mp3Tag allow to remove the same character of all the tags? If yes, how can I do ? Thanks 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 3:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-the-same-characters-of-all-the-tags/17203/2 "2015-09-05T15:07:06Z")
> [@poum](#): > > Hi, I'm a french user of Mp3Tag. > Since I changed my mp3 player (musicbee instead of foobar) I have a chinese character which was added to every tag. So, I'm looking for a method to remove it automatically. Does Mp3Tag allow to remove the same character of all the tags? If yes, how can I do ? Thanks 🙂 Action "Replace using Regular Expression" Field: \_TAG Regular Expression: Replace by: ... but I suspect the "chinese" error has to be searched within another corner of your tags. DD.20150905.1909.CEST ---
**Author:** ![poum](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@poum](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poum)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-the-same-characters-of-all-the-tags/17203/3 "2015-09-18T14:13:39Z")
> [@](#): > > Action "Replace using Regular Expression" > Field: \_TAG > Regular Expression: > Replace by: > > ... but I suspect the "chinese" error has to be searched within another corner of your tags. Hello. Yes, you're right, this character doesn't appear when I edit the tags with Mp3Tag ; so, I can't use your solution. I really don't understand why this chinese character appears only in MusicBee. Unfortunately, I think i will have to change each tag manually in MusicBee (25k tracks...) Thanks 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 5:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-the-same-characters-of-all-the-tags/17203/4 "2015-09-18T17:10:18Z")
> [@poum](#): > > Hello. Yes, you're right, this character doesn't appear when I edit the tags with Mp3Tag ... I really don't understand why this chinese character appears ... only in MusicBee ... have to change each tag manually in MusicBee ... 1. So what do you change to make the "chinese" character to disappear? 2. Please provide a textual example string ... and/or a screenshot picture, which demonstrates the "chinese" character. DD.20150918.2110.CEST ---
**Author:** ![poum](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@poum](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poum)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-the-same-characters-of-all-the-tags/17203/5 "2015-09-24T15:49:36Z")
The chinese characters are : 偔ㅅ (sometimes only the first) I thus have to edit the tags of every title in MusicBee (edit/properties/tag), one by one, and erase it. It's long and cumbersome... I'm going to ask the question on the MusicBee forum (I should maybe have begun with that) and I shall inform you if I have an answer. 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 24, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-the-same-characters-of-all-the-tags/17203/6 "2015-09-24T15:57:03Z")
I would say that the source program does not know how to deal with characters that are not encoded with a single byte. ---
**Author:** ![poum](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@poum](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poum)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 4:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-the-same-characters-of-all-the-tags/17203/7 "2015-09-24T16:08:14Z")
ok, I created a [topic](http://tinyurl.com/p3grr52) on the forum of MusicBee (in my approximate English...) 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 24, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-the-same-characters-of-all-the-tags/17203/8 "2015-09-24T16:14:28Z")
I am not sure if this helps at all: Mp3diags has a function that converts characters from a particular codepage to unicode characters. Perhaps you get mp3diags, load a couple of files and see if that function is of any use. Also: if you have stored some of the information in the filename, you could use the Convert\>Filename-Tag function to restore that to the tags. And then perhaps you get the missing information from one of the web sources or the freedb. ---
**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, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-the-same-characters-of-all-the-tags/17203/9 "2026-02-09T12:25:51Z")
Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC