# Title and file name are %artist% - %title% - %album% **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [October 22, 2014, 6:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/title-and-file-name-are-artist-title-album/16255 "2014-10-22T06:41:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mmarks](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@mmarks](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mmarks)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 6:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/title-and-file-name-are-artist-title-album/16255/1 "2014-10-22T06:41:36Z")
I have made a big mistake and managed to copy the file name of all my music files (over 6000 of them) to the %TITLE% tag. This means that the title of all my music is %ARTIST% - %TITLE% - %ALBUM% for example the title tag is now ELO - Mr. Blue Sky - Out Of The Blue. Any way I can just take what is the middle word between the " - "'s and make that the title tag? Please help as I really have screwed it up and don't have any other copies of my music collection. Michael ---
**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:** [October 22, 2014, 6:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/title-and-file-name-are-artist-title-album/16255/2 "2014-10-22T06:58:07Z")
You can use the action of the type "Guess value" (import tag field) for the field %TITLE% Enter as import string: %ARTIST% - %TITLE% - %ALBUM% This should move the data back to the names fields. If the date in ARTIST and ALBUM are still OK, then use the following import string: %dummy% - %TITLE% - %dummy% ---
**Author:** ![mmarks](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@mmarks](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mmarks)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 7:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/title-and-file-name-are-artist-title-album/16255/3 "2014-10-22T07:08:49Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#): > > You can use the action of the type "Guess value" (import tag field) for the field %TITLE% > Enter as import string: %ARTIST% - %TITLE% - %ALBUM% > > This should move the data back to the names fields. > If the date in ARTIST and ALBUM are still OK, then use the following import string: > %dummy% - %TITLE% - %dummy% Wow! that worked perfectly, I now have my titles back. Thank you so much. Michael ---
**Author:** ![goonybond](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@goonybond](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/goonybond)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/title-and-file-name-are-artist-title-album/16255/4 "2014-10-22T12:23:50Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#): > > You can use the action of the type "Guess value" (import tag field) for the field %TITLE% > Enter as import string: %ARTIST% - %TITLE% - %ALBUM% > > This should move the data back to the names fields. > If the date in ARTIST and ALBUM are still OK, then use the following import string: > %dummy% - %TITLE% - %dummy% Hey ohrenkino, I am having a problem which is I think is similar to one you recently solved. I am trying to take part a files tag information and apply it to another field. The title looks like this: **DJ Curious – Making Love**. (artist - title) Is there either way to **cut** or **copy** the artist info from the title and apply it to another field? Hope I've explained that well enough. I'm new to this forum thing. ---
**Author:** ![vkostas](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/vkostas/32/227_2.png) [@vkostas](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/vkostas)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 1:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/title-and-file-name-are-artist-title-album/16255/5 "2014-10-22T13:05:44Z")
> [@ShowerFacedGoon](#): > > Hey ohrenkino, > > I am having a problem which is I think is similar to one you recently solved. > > I am trying to take part a files tag information and apply it to another field. > The title looks like this: **DJ Curious – Making Love**. (artist - title) > > Is there either way to **cut** or **copy** the artist info from the title and apply it to another field? > > Hope I've explained that well enough. I'm new to this forum thing. I think you have to slighly change what orenkino did. source %TITLE% target %ARTIST% - %TITLE% Please give a real example. ---
**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, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/title-and-file-name-are-artist-title-album/16255/6 "2026-02-09T12:25:20Z")
Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC