I have a lot of files with a track number in the title and I’d like to remove the track number from the title field, how would I do this?
To be clear, these files have title fields that are formatted like this:
01 Title Of The Song
I want it to be changed to:
Title Of The Song
-Mark
You can use ‘Correct Filename from Tags’ to format your filename from the tags according to the pattern you have set in ‘File and Folder Correct/Rename File from Tags’ Preferences. SO once your tagdata is correct I would rename by files using this option.
Wouldn’t that just correct the filename? These tracks have a title field that contains the track number + the title, no MusicBrainzID so not corrected automatically. I just want to clean up the title to remove the track number.
-Mark
Sorry, misread the question.
What about using Find and Replace ( you would have to repeat for 01,02 …
at the moment until regular expressions are supported).
Set Find to 01
1st Combo to Tilte
2nd Combo to Starts With
Press replace All
Set Find to 02 and repeat…
From what I can tell regex isn’t supported yet? Are you still looking at this or another solution?
Thanks,
-Mark
No not supported yet but it wil get done eventually (#104)
Wildcards would be better than nothing 
and, perhaps, easier to implement as a short-term workaround 
you didn’t post whether you are on a mac or PC but if you are using a mac, there is a decent solution for you.
Go to doug’s itunes applescripts (google it). There is a script called “remove n characters from front or back”. Install it. Select the tracks you want to work with, hit the script, and it will ask you which field to edit and how many characters to lop off (don’t forget that space).
This is the same issue that prompted me to ask for ltrim, rtrim, or substring commands in Jaikoz a couple weeks ago.
of course, find and replace works too…