# Add hyphen in filename for all tracks

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-hyphen-in-filename-for-all-tracks/69346
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 8, 2025, 9:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-hyphen-in-filename-for-all-tracks/69346 "2025-08-08T09:22:25Z")
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### Author: ![mamyllyn](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@mamyllyn](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mamyllyn)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2025, 9:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-hyphen-in-filename-for-all-tracks/69346/1 "2025-08-08T09:22:25Z")

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Hello,  
I have quite basic question but let´s see what is the best way to do this.

My tags are ok but the filename is like this:  
01 W.A.S.P. - Never Say Die

I would like to rename all filenames like this:

01 - W.A.S.P. - Never Say Die

If I use quick action to replace the empty space in the start with - it adds this to every empty space. How could I make it so that it adds the hyphen only after the track number?

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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2025, 9:27am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-hyphen-in-filename-for-all-tracks/69346/2 "2025-08-08T09:27:35Z")

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> [@mamyllyn](#):
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> My tags are ok

Use Convert\>Tag-Filename and rename the files with e.g.  
Format string: `$num(%track%,2) - %artist% - %title%`

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### Author: ![mamyllyn](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@mamyllyn](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mamyllyn)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2025, 9:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-hyphen-in-filename-for-all-tracks/69346/3 "2025-08-08T09:30:14Z")

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Thank you and this worked!  
The problem is solved.

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2025, 9:31am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-hyphen-in-filename-for-all-tracks/69346/4 "2025-09-07T09:31:10Z")

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