# removing string of text before title

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-string-of-text-before-title/18249>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [September 18, 2016, 6:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-string-of-text-before-title/18249 "2016-09-18T06:40:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![mp3tag\_newb](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@mp3tag\_newb](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mp3tag_newb)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2016, 6:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-string-of-text-before-title/18249/1 "2016-09-18T06:40:58Z")

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Hey guys,

hope you can help - i'm trying to remove a string of text in my titles. for some reason my file shows the year and track before the actual title and trying to get rid of the first part (for example, one of my title shows up like this: "(2005-14) Song Title"

so far i've used this function $replace(%title%,(2005-14) ,) and it gives me "Song Title" (which is what i want) but there's so many files with the same format and different years. is there another function that just removes whatever is inside the parenthesis? maybe a wildcard? i've tried using "." inside the parenthesis but that didn't work...

thanks in advanced

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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:** [September 18, 2016, 7:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-string-of-text-before-title/18249/2 "2016-09-18T07:35:57Z")

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So many ways lead to Rome.

You could try an action of the type "Guess value" for %title%  
Guessing pattern: (%dummy%) %title%

Or if you want do something with replace, use an action of the type "Replace with regular expression" for TITLE  
Search string: (\d+-\d+)  
(with a blank behind the last bracket)  
Replace String:  
(leave empty)

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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, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-string-of-text-before-title/18249/3 "2026-02-09T12:26:25Z")

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Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:26pm UTC