# Trailing white space in Artist tag

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trailing-white-space-in-artist-tag/4848
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 9, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trailing-white-space-in-artist-tag/4848 "2007-05-09T15:44:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![dannyboy83](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ba8739/32.png) [@dannyboy83](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dannyboy83)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trailing-white-space-in-artist-tag/4848/1 "2007-05-09T15:44:04Z")

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Hello,

a lot of my MP3s have extra white space after the artist name, and it really looks a mess in Winamp and when burning MP3 CDs.

I downloaded MP3tag to solve this and used the Actions (regular expressions) to change [\s]\* to " " i.e. nothing.

What that did was take out all spaces in the artist name, so two and three word artists lost the spces in between words.

Anyone know if you can apply a formula to get rid of white space after the artist and not in the artist name?

Thanks ![:book:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/0036d5b68f6226c53f6c68abfd0a7b8096fd4505.gif ":book:")

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trailing-white-space-in-artist-tag/4848/2 "2007-05-09T16:05:26Z")

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[Actions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1)

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### 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, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trailing-white-space-in-artist-tag/4848/3 "2026-02-09T12:20:17Z")

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