# Removing unwanted text from title field
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-unwanted-text-from-title-field/17305
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [October 15, 2015, 5:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-unwanted-text-from-title-field/17305 "2015-10-15T17:10:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@mingusal](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mingusal)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2015, 5:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-unwanted-text-from-title-field/17305/1 "2015-10-15T17:10:19Z")
OK, so I've tried this various ways and nothing has happened. I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but I guess I need some help before I blow my stack with frustration over my own stupidity.
The title field for these albums was originally formatted as: (track number) - (artist name) - (song title). I wanted to remove everything before the actual song title. So I used the usual method for removing track numbers as a regular expression, which worked fine.
This left the formatting as (artist name) - (song title). So I figured I'd just finagle the number removal expression to remove the artist name, but that didn't work for some reason. And now I've tried a number of things I found in the forum to remove unwanted text from the field, but nothing has worked so far at all.
So, what simple expression am I missing here for removing this unwanted text from the beginning of my titles?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2015, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-unwanted-text-from-title-field/17305/2 "2015-10-15T18:02:01Z")
Try an action of the type "Guess values" for %title%
Guessing pattern: (%dummy%) - (%title%)
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### Author:  [@mingusal](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mingusal)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-unwanted-text-from-title-field/17305/3 "2015-10-15T18:12:06Z")
Thanks, but I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Where do I place this action and how specifically would I operationalize it?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2015, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-unwanted-text-from-title-field/17305/4 "2015-10-15T18:21:43Z")
> [@mingusal](#):
>
> Thanks, but I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Where do I place this action and how specifically would I operationalize it?
How did you create the replace action? The "Guess value" (or import tag field) action is a similar one.
Enter %title% as source
Enter as pattern: (%dummy%) - (%title%)
%dummy% more or less deletes the contents of the first parenthesis as it puts the contents into the non-existing field "dummy". The rest goes to TITLE
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### Author:  [@mingusal](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mingusal)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-unwanted-text-from-title-field/17305/5 "2015-10-15T18:56:42Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> How did you create the replace action? The "Guess value" (or import tag field) action is a similar one.
> Enter %title% as source
> Enter as pattern: (%dummy%) - (%title%)
>
> %dummy% more or less deletes the contents of the first parenthesis as it puts the contents into the non-existing field "dummy". The rest goes to TITLE
Thank you, that clears it up. And that works!
I was trying to come up with a Regular Expression action that would do it, but I just couldn't seem to get it to work.