# Remove track # from Title field **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [December 17, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-track-from-title-field/12827 "2011-12-17T23:15:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PlatypusPedersen](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c77e96/32.png) [@PlatypusPedersen](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/PlatypusPedersen)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-track-from-title-field/12827/1 "2011-12-17T23:15:00Z")
I need to remove track number in the title field, the title field says: 01 - Title, I want it to say only Title. I tried creating a regex like described [here](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/521/3). > [@](#): > > Regular expression: ^\s\*[0-9]+\s\*-\s\* > Replace with: > > This one will remove the track-number (if followed by a dash) and white space at the beginning of a string > (for instance 01 - Come Together will become Come Together) The regex in the quote above did not work for me. What am I doing wrong? ---
**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:** [December 18, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-track-from-title-field/12827/2 "2011-12-18T03:47:40Z")
> [@PlatypusPedersen](#): > > What am I doing wrong? I do not know. Following expressions can remove leading digits, space, hyphen from the tag-field TITLE ... **$regexp(%TITLE%,'^\s\*[0-9]+\s\*-\s\*',%DUMMY%)****$trimLeft(%TITLE%,'0123456789 -')** DD.20111218.0548.CET ---
**Author:** ![PlatypusPedersen](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c77e96/32.png) [@PlatypusPedersen](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/PlatypusPedersen)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 6:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-track-from-title-field/12827/3 "2011-12-18T06:43:01Z")
For some reason I didn't get that to work either. Thanks for the help nevertheless. In the end I just used filename to tag, with %dummy% - %dummy% - %title% - and that worked like a charm. A couple years ago when I first did a huge batch of cleaning up, I actually managed to successfully play around with the regex, but now I am completely dazzled by it again. Thanks for the help. 🙂 ---
**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:** [December 18, 2011, 11:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-track-from-title-field/12827/4 "2011-12-18T11:04:10Z")
> [@PlatypusPedersen](#): > > For some reason I didn't get that to work either. Thanks for the help nevertheless. In the end I just used filename to tag, with %dummy% - %dummy% - %title% - and that worked like a charm. ... Hi PlatypusPedersen, in your first request post you wrote ... > 01 - Title, I want it to say only Title. I gave you two scripting expressions in order to apply with an action "Format value". Both proposals work successfully with your example string "01 - Title" to give only "Title". Now you report about a different case looking like that: "%dummy% - %dummy% - %title% -" In general Mp3tag provides more than one way to find a solutíon. You discovered a way for your different case, you have initially not asked for, and it is good, if it works for you. DD.20111218.1305.CET ---
**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, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-track-from-title-field/12827/5 "2026-02-09T12:23:31Z")