two related questions 1 just want to delete the contents of a field, but i see no such Delete function, only Replace ok, so i tried to use Replace, but it does not recognise '*' as a wild card character to replace anything (with null) so answers to both of those issues would be nice i checked p…

The ID3 standard defines that there are no empty fields present in a file. Either there is data for a field - and then it can be displayed. Or there is none, then the tag does not contain that field. So clearing the contents of a field leads in the end to a tag without that field - which means: d…

To delete a field from selected files in the tag panel, select <Delete> from the dropdown list and save the changes. To delete a field that is not shown in the tag panel, use the extended tags dialogue Alt+T, select the field(s) there, click on the red x and save the changes with OK.

thank you, but i did not say anything about deleting s FIELD, as i thought was eveident in my explanation. i am tryting to delet the CONTENTS of a field.

Metadata is stored in the header section of the audio file. For any tag field that has no content, there is no point in taking up the space in the header for this. From the reply to @ohrenkino you seem to have a reason to want to keep a placeholder, is there something specific you have in mind? BT…

very simple. that Field (Artist) has many incorrect values, usually from person who created track, so i want to delete the incorrect values and then gradually enter correct data. (and, btw, as i have discovered, it is quite problematic trying to strip/copy Artist out of Title, or in my case, File N…

[image] dec: it is quite problematic trying to strip/copy Artist out of Title, or in my case, File Name Without a real example, it is hard to say what can be done to get the data out of the filename. It is more a question of patterns than of actual words.

you are not answering or addressing the actual question

You are not reading what I am writing? As soon as you delete all the data in a field, the field gets deleted from the tag. There are no placeholders in a tag. So, to delete all the data from a field is to remove the field itself. This happens only to the selected file(s). (Are we still talking …

obviously deleting the data in a field does NOT delete the field - otherwise i would not have so many Field cells with null values

You have to make a difference between the display in MP3tag and that what can actually be found in a file. The tag panel and the file list feature placeholders for fields - and these remain empty if no data for that field is found in a file. To get an accurate list of found fields in a file, pleas…

[image] dec: very simple. that Field (Artist) has many incorrect values, usually from person who created track, so i want to delete the incorrect values and then gradually enter correct data. This still is not a problem. When you remove all of the existing data, whether by formally deleting t…

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ohrenkino April 9, 2023, 5:52am 15

See here:

Please show us the extended tags dialogue of a single file and tell us which data you wanted to delete.