# ACTION: PROMPTING for VALUE / RENAMING FILES
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-prompting-for-value-renaming-files/3513
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 1, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-prompting-for-value-renaming-files/3513 "2006-07-01T14:57:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@bellyman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bellyman)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-prompting-for-value-renaming-files/3513/1 "2006-07-01T14:57:28Z")
Found this app recently and looks very good.
An extra bonus would be to allow a command-line system - via scripts.
Two questions today are:
(A) I typically download shows that are about 2 hours and then cut them down to about 7.5m files (various reasons). I then have to tag them.
The files are the same YEAR; GENRE; ARTIST each week. The only difference is the ALBUM.
Each week it will increment by a number - say "ASOT 255" or "ASOT 256".
The ACTION (macro system) is an excellent feature - and I can preload. But what I don't seem to be able to do is when changing the FIELD ALBUM it would be nice instead of entering the name, would be to see something like or . Could be and . Then as each file is processed it would ask. PROMPT ALL would ask once and I would enter ASOT 255.
ANother thought is a wildcard system
So for value I enter ASOT (or ) Then it would prompt "ASOT " and I would enter 255.
(B) I noticed the rename as another option, and notice the auto-rename down to 64 chars.
(1) Nice to be able to embed in the action the ability to auto-rename there as well.
My tracks, after I split with "mp3splt" come as ASOT 255\_001.mp3... I prefer to rename to "ASOT 255\_01.mp3".
(2) Would be nice to be able to rename to even shorter - say 30. Some music players only show 30 as it stands.
The key is that the ACTION could be made more robust.
Nice to be able to FIRE an action _AND_ auto generate the filelist.
(in the end I have a bunch of tasks that need to fire - most of which would be better served if I could do stuff in steps via command-line scripts)
Great app.
belly
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-prompting-for-value-renaming-files/3513/2 "2026-02-09T12:19:48Z")