Hello all, How do I strip leading numbers and dash from the TITLE tag? I've done filename > tag, now I'd like to use 'replace with regex' to strip the leading numbers and dash from the TITLE tag. Sorry, this has probably been asked a zillion times before (even by me!), but google search led me do…

sorted (for this case anyway)... simply removed the first three characters from the title tag with: ^.{3}

Or see here - as it is safer to look for digits than just any character [image] Strip leading numbers from filenames to create titles Support I could not for the life of me figure out this multistage process. After a lot of trouble (even though I am a professional program…

thanks (admittedly i was a bit ham-fisted) The format of no spaces between number, dash and track title is a bit of a bugger. Normally I can do filename > tag ' %track% %dummy% ' to get track numbers. In this case I had to do replace with regex: _FILENAME, Regex: (?<!\s)-|-(?!\s) Replace with…

[image] AudioBabble: 01-Concert Intro With %dummy%-%title% should also lead to success Or a regular expression like \d+\s*-\s* would delete the leading number and a hyphen with or without spaces if you leave the "Replace with" empty.

[image] AudioBabble: How do I strip leading numbers and dash from the TITLE tag? ^.{3} This only works for exactly the first 3 characters at the beginning of a TITLE tag. This will NOT work as expected for this examples: 01-Concert Intro -> -Concert Intro 1-Concert Intro -> oncert Intro …

[image] AudioBabble: Normally I can do filename > tag ' %track% %dummy% ' to get track numbers. This only works for filenames with a space in the filename. 01-Concert Intro with %track% %dummy% would lead to have 01-Concerto in TRACK

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ohrenkino March 9, 2025, 2:02pm 3

Or see here - as it is safer to look for digits than just any character