# Renaming/Removing Items From Tags

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-removing-items-from-tags/10138>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 19, 2010, 1:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-removing-items-from-tags/10138 "2010-03-19T13:34:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![shawncumby](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shawncumby](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/shawncumby)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 1:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-removing-items-from-tags/10138/1 "2010-03-19T13:34:56Z")

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Hello.  
I am a new user to Mp3tag and to these forums. I am currently (still) searching for an answer to my problem, but I have yet to see exactly what I want.

I have a bunch of files in this format:  
**artist - title.mp3**  
and I can copy that to the tag, but what I want is to remove the **artist -** after I am done so my tag looks like this:  
**title**.

I am trying to understand strings, but most of it escapes me.  
And if this has already been posted, just point me in the "write" direction. Hahaha.  
I already have been [here](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/8) but I don't see what I want. The closest would be removing leading characters, but as each artist is a different length, that isn't applicable. I think I need a string along the lines of:  
**remove (pre -) (-)(and blank space afterward)**.

Thanks.  
Shawn.

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