# Removing some characters

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-some-characters/11482
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 22, 2011, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-some-characters/11482 "2011-01-22T12:24:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![konqui](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@konqui](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/konqui)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2011, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-some-characters/11482/1 "2011-01-22T12:24:36Z")

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Hi I'm triying to create an action to delete some characters from a field.

For example:

[![](http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/3299/44050249.th.png)](http://img6.imageshack.us/i/44050249.png/)

Green is the final result, only the song title, and in red is the original tag with Artist / Title. I want only the name of song. I would do it with more mp3 with different artist / title, different number of characters.

PD. Sorry for my english, thanks for all.

Greetings.

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### Author: ![pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/pone/32/272_2.png) [@pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pone)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-some-characters/11482/2 "2011-01-22T13:58:35Z")

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> [@konqui](#):
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> Hi I'm triying to create an action to delete some characters from a field.
> 
> Green is the final result, only the song title, and in red is the original tag with Artist / Title. I want only the name of song. I would do it with more mp3 with different artist / title, different number of characters.

Action: Guess Values:  
Sourceformat: %title%  
Formatstring: %artist% / %title%  
or  
Formatstring: %dummy% / %title%

With _%artist% / %title%_ you move everything before the slash from the title field to the artist field.  
With _%dummy% / %title%_ you delete everything before the slash.

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### Author: ![konqui](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@konqui](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/konqui)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2011, 5:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-some-characters/11482/3 "2011-01-22T17:21:06Z")

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> [@pone](#):
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> Action: Guess Values:  
> Sourceformat: %title%  
> Formatstring: %artist% / %title%  
> or  
> Formatstring: %dummy% / %title%
> 
> With _%artist% / %title%_ you move everything before the slash from the title field to the artist field.  
> With _%dummy% / %title%_ you delete everything before the slash.

Thanks, solved.

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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-some-characters/11482/4 "2026-02-09T12:22:51Z")

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