# Trimming album field

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trimming-album-field/14678>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [April 28, 2013, 9:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trimming-album-field/14678 "2013-04-28T09:40:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![gidxg03](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/df788c/32.png) [@gidxg03](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gidxg03)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 9:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trimming-album-field/14678/1 "2013-04-28T09:40:14Z")

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Can anyone tell me how I can trim my album field (which I have created by copying the file path to album field) from:

E:\mp3\Now That's What I Call Music\Now That's What I Call Music 1 - 2 CD\Disc1\

To:

Now That's What I Call Music 1

and

E:\mp3\Now That's What I Call Music\Now That's What I Call Music 2 - 2 CD\Disc1\

Now That's What I Call Music 2

This continues on up to album Now That's What I Call Music 76.

Thanks in advance.

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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:** [April 28, 2013, 10:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trimming-album-field/14678/2 "2013-04-28T10:24:44Z")

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Instead of putting the whole path in the album field you should use "Convert -\> filename - tag".

The format string  
_%album% - %dummy%\%dummy%\%dummy%_  
should give you the desired result.

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**Author:** ![gidxg03](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/df788c/32.png) [@gidxg03](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gidxg03)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2013, 9:34am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trimming-album-field/14678/3 "2013-04-29T09:34:41Z")

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Hi Dano,

Thanks for the reply but I am afraid that did not work for me. Nothing in the album field changed. Is there a format string available just to trim from "E:\mp3\Now That's What I Call Music\Now That's What I Call Music 72 - 2 CD" to "Now That's What I Call Music 72"?

Thanks.

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**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:** [April 29, 2013, 10:03am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trimming-album-field/14678/4 "2013-04-29T10:03:00Z")

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> [@gidxg03](#):
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> ... that did not work for me.

DO not apply that to the album field but use the converter  
And then you have to be painfully precise what a filename looks like.  
To extract the album name from

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> ...E:\mp3\Now That's What I Call Music\Now That's What I Call Music 72 - 2 CD" to "Now That's What I Call Music 72"?

Provided that your example is still the correct fully qualified pathname  
use Convert\>Filename-Tag  
and enter:  
%album% - %dummy%\%dummy%

The preview should show the result.

Or use an action of the type "Replace with regular expression" for ALBUM and the following search string:  
e:\\mp3\\._\\(._) -.\*  
Replace string  
$1

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**Author:** ![gidxg03](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/df788c/32.png) [@gidxg03](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gidxg03)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 7:32am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trimming-album-field/14678/5 "2013-04-30T07:32:50Z")

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> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> Provided that your example is still the correct fully qualified pathname  
> use Convert\>Filename-Tag  
> and enter:  
> %album% - %dummy%\%dummy%

This worked perfectly. Thank you so much!!

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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, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trimming-album-field/14678/6 "2026-02-09T12:24:28Z")

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Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:24pm UTC