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@terdon's answer provides this script:

find . -type f -name "*mp3" | while read file; do 
    album="$(basename "$(dirname "$file")")"; 
    filename="$(basename "$file")"; 
    artist=${filename%%-*}; 
    title=${filename##*-}; 
    title=${title%%.mp3}; 
    eyeD3 -A "$album" -t "$title" -a "$artist" "$file"; 
done

It makes use of eyeD3 to update mp3 tags. It extracts Album, Artist and Title from file name, supposing that the file name is Album/Artist - Title.mp3.

Well, after running it the Title field is starting with a blank space. See below:

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How to fix this if my mp3 files have the pattern

Album/<Artist with possible spaces> - <track number> - <Title with possible spaces>.mp3
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This might not be in the domain of bash scripting anymore. Using python instead might be beneficial. –  Alexander Feb 9 at 19:29
    
possible duplicate of MP3 tags Cyrillic chars –  Mikel Feb 9 at 21:48
    
@Sigur I don't understand why you didn't just update your question and comment there. –  Mikel Feb 9 at 21:49
    
It was suggested to me to ask as a new question since the problem now is related with script and strings manipulation. Not necessarily tags. –  Sigur Feb 9 at 21:59

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Since I assume that your names do not always have these spaces, the easiest thing to do would be to simply remove the space if present: 

find . -type f -name "*mp3" | 
  while read file; do 
   album="$(basename "$(dirname "$file")")"; 
   filename="$(basename "$file")"; 
   artist=${filename%%-*}; artist=${artist%% }; artist=${artist## };
   title=${filename##*-}; title=${title%% }; title=${title## };
   title=${title%%.mp3}; 
   eyeD3 -A "$album" -t "$title" -a "$artist" "$file";
 done
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Perfect. Now everything is fine. Thanks so much. –  Sigur Feb 9 at 20:04
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Ksh extended glob patterns give wildcards the power of regular expressions. In bash, turn them on with shopt -s extglob.

Then, instead of

title=${filename##*-}

to remove the part of $filename up to the last -, you can use

title=${filename##*- #}

to also strip whitespace after the -.

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If you just want to remove the leading space for the Artist, you could use sed. Something like this should work. 

artist=${filename%%-*}; 
artist=`echo $artist |  sed 's/^ *//g'`;
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