# Removing artist name from %title% field

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-artist-name-from-title-field/9761
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 24, 2010, 1:02am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-artist-name-from-title-field/9761 "2010-01-24T01:02:09Z")
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### Author: ![ExitRitual](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@ExitRitual](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ExitRitual)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2010, 1:02am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-artist-name-from-title-field/9761/1 "2010-01-24T01:02:09Z")

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OK, here's a little annoyance i get with some podcasts i subscribe to:

![](http://i901.photobucket.com/albums/ac212/helloiamdene/screenshot1264298295.jpg)

For reference, the fields in displayed order are: Artist-Track#-Title-Album

I'm looking for a way to automate removal of duplicated text, if anyone can help?

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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: [January 24, 2010, 7:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-artist-name-from-title-field/9761/2 "2010-01-24T07:57:41Z")

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create an action that replaces with regular expressions in the field Title

the search string would be:  
"%artist% - "  
leave the "replace with string" empty.  
THis should erase the artist and the hyphen from the title.  
Works only if the artist is already known and spelt just like in the title.  
If there is more superfluous data in your title field that is stored elsewhere you may incorporate that field in a similar fashion in the search string.

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2010, 9:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-artist-name-from-title-field/9761/3 "2010-01-24T09:55:58Z")

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That doesn't work.

What you can do for example:  
_Action type:_ **Format value**  
_Field:_ **TITLE**  
_Format string:_ **$replace(%title%,%artist% - ,)**

or  
_Action type:_ **Guess values**  
_Source format:_ **%title%**  
_Guessing pattern:_ **%dummy% - %title%**

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### Author: ![ExitRitual](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@ExitRitual](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ExitRitual)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-artist-name-from-title-field/9761/4 "2010-01-24T15:49:40Z")

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> [@dano](#):
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> What you can do for example:  
> _Action type:_ **Format value**  
> _Field:_ **TITLE**  
> _Format string:_ **$replace(%title%,%artist% - ,)**

Thank's Dano, that worked exactly as i needed it to.

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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, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-artist-name-from-title-field/9761/5 "2026-02-09T12:22:07Z")

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