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Many of my mp3s have ID3 fields that contain spaces at the beginning or at the end of the field. I'm looking for an application that:
You should be able to do this with Mp3tag. Mp3tag has a replace with regular expression action that will allow you to remove spaces in any tag field you want.
Your requirements:
To trim spaces (beginning and end of all tags), use the action (thanks Izzy!):
^\s+(.*)\s+$ replace by "$1" (or "\1", depending on what the application uses for back-references). If you also want to catch those having spaces only in front or in the end (the above only catches those having both): ^\s+(.*)$ for the former, ^(.*)\s+$ for the latter.
$1 Thanks a lot!
Mar 20, 2014 at 0:56
_TAG: ^\s+-> "" and _TAG: \s+$ -> "", which worked fine for me.
Jun 9, 2016 at 8:53
Puddletag is solution I'm using on Ubuntu. Puddletag generally looking is very similar to mp3tag available on windows platform.
Requested functions:
Beside requested functions there are few other I consider very useful such as auto numbering, remove duplicate values, remove all except chosen value, update fields from tag, sort values, import and export artwork, scripting functions (RegEx) and one I like most tagging audio files using web based Tag Sources like MusicBrainz, Discogs, Amazon, FreeDB, AcoustID. Its even possible to use Mp3tag’s Tag Sources but that one I never tested.
I have seen the feature to remove whitespace in MP3diags but don't ask me which column it was. This program detects a myriad of errors and you could easily spend some days to fix them all.
It's free and available for all major platforms
Jaikoz Music Tagger has an inbuilt task specifically for this called Remove WhiteSpace, it also has a task called Remove Widespace that finds instances of multiple spaces together in the middle of text and reduces it down to one.
In this screenshot the first Album Artist value has both leading and trailing whitespace, and Jaikoz helpfully highlights this in pink, selecting the field and then choosing Edit:Remove Whitespace removes these. Of course you can select all fields and fix all fields in one go if you want.
There are also two spaces between Sonic and Youth, selecting Remove Widespace would reduce this to one.
Jaikoz works on OSX, Windows and Mac.
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Disclaimer: I am the Jaikoz developer.
You can set a rule in bliss to do this for you, so bliss trims all fields of a given type, for all albums:
Click the settings cog and enable the Tags rule:
Now enable the trim rule, selecting the fields you'd like trimmed:
Finally, click "Apply rules" at the bottom of the page.
Disclaimer: I am the programmer and founder of the bliss project.
