# Removing expressions in parentheses and other brackets
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-expressions-in-parentheses-and-other-brackets/12673
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 8, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-expressions-in-parentheses-and-other-brackets/12673 "2011-11-08T18:35:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@snowboarder\_1603](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/snowboarder_1603)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-expressions-in-parentheses-and-other-brackets/12673/1 "2011-11-08T18:35:55Z")
I want to standardize my music collection, so all songs that are the same are easy to delete.
I've done a pretty good job so far, but i want to change things like this
Higher (Jody Den Broeder Radio Edit)
To:
Higher (Clean)
I don't care who made the song clean, i just need to know that it's a clean song. I've used replace for all the simple ones but i have a ton of these random radio edits. How do i go about doing this?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-expressions-in-parentheses-and-other-brackets/12673/2 "2011-11-08T19:44:02Z")
> [@snowboarder\_1603](#):
>
> Higher (Jody Den Broeder Radio Edit)
>
> To:
>
> Higher (Clean)
make yourself an action of the type "Replace with regular expression" for the field title.
Enter as search string:
(._) (._)
enter as replace string:
$1 (clean)
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### Author:  [@snowboarder\_1603](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/snowboarder_1603)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-expressions-in-parentheses-and-other-brackets/12673/3 "2011-11-08T19:49:26Z")
This is pretty close, but this will rename anything that has parentheses in it to [Clean], which would be wrong. I need some way to say if it contains the word radio, or clean to then change what's in parentheses to [Clean]
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-expressions-in-parentheses-and-other-brackets/12673/4 "2011-11-08T19:58:12Z")
> [@snowboarder\_1603](#):
>
> ... i want to change things like this
> Higher (Jody Den Broeder Radio Edit)
> To:
> Higher (Clean)
> ...
This works for the filename ...
**$regexp(%\_filename%,'^(.+?) [[{(].+?[]})]$','$1 (Clean)')**
From:
Higher {[(Jody Den Broeder Radio Edit)]}
To:
Higher (Clean)
DD.20111108.2158.CET
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-expressions-in-parentheses-and-other-brackets/12673/5 "2011-11-08T19:58:25Z")
> [@snowboarder\_1603](#):
>
> This is pretty close, but this will rename anything that has parentheses in it to [Clean], which would be wrong. I need some way to say if it contains the word radio, or clean to then change what's in parentheses to [Clean]
use a filter - which is quicker anyway
%title% HAS "(" and %title% HAS radio OR %title% HAS clean
as the information about the mix or version is usually rather useful and rather hard to restore once it has been deleted, I would suggest to add a user-defined tag %clean% that could have the contents of your choice (e.g. "yes" and "no").
This would keep the version of a track.
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-expressions-in-parentheses-and-other-brackets/12673/6 "2011-11-08T20:07:24Z")
> [@snowboarder\_1603](#):
>
> ... I need some way to say if it contains the word radio, or clean to then change what's in parentheses to [Clean]
This works for the filename ...
**$regexp(%\_filename%,'^(.+?) [[{(].\*(radio|clean).\*[]})]$','$1 [Clean]',1)**
From:
Higher {[(Jody Den Broeder Radio Edit)]}
To:
Higher [Clean]
From:
Higher [Clean]
To:
Higher [Clean]
DD.20111108.2208.CET
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-expressions-in-parentheses-and-other-brackets/12673/7 "2026-02-09T12:23:25Z")