# Action to remove leading zero and total tracks
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-to-remove-leading-zero-and-total-tracks/11585
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 13, 2011, 11:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-to-remove-leading-zero-and-total-tracks/11585 "2011-02-13T11:52:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@LifesSweetDrug](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LifesSweetDrug)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2011, 11:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-to-remove-leading-zero-and-total-tracks/11585/1 "2011-02-13T11:52:35Z")
Has anyone created an action to remove leading zero and remove /total tracks on the track field?
I have been using the autonumber wizard to do this but it would be a lot quicker to just use an action. I have tried to create one but I am failing miserably.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2011, 12:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-to-remove-leading-zero-and-total-tracks/11585/2 "2011-02-13T12:02:16Z")
Make a [new action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1)
_Action type:_ **Format value**
_Field:_ **TRACK**
_Formatstring:_ **[$num(%track%,1)]**
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### Author:  [@LifesSweetDrug](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LifesSweetDrug)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2011, 12:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-to-remove-leading-zero-and-total-tracks/11585/3 "2011-02-13T12:06:11Z")
Thanks for the quick reply, works perfectly 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-to-remove-leading-zero-and-total-tracks/11585/4 "2026-02-09T12:22:54Z")