# Adding a 0 to all itunes seasons and episodes
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-a-0-to-all-itunes-seasons-and-episodes/10009
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 2, 2010, 2:02am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-a-0-to-all-itunes-seasons-and-episodes/10009 "2010-03-02T02:02:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@slov92](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/slov92)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2010, 2:02am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-a-0-to-all-itunes-seasons-and-episodes/10009/1 "2010-03-02T02:02:10Z")
At the moment I have all my itunes video files tagged with one digit numerals.
E.G TV Show - Lost
```
TV Season - 6
TV Episode - 1
```
How would I add a 0 before the numeral to all my video in one handy action?
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2010, 7:34am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-a-0-to-all-itunes-seasons-and-episodes/10009/2 "2010-03-02T07:34:04Z")
That is not possible with mp4.
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### Author:  [@slov92](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/slov92)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-a-0-to-all-itunes-seasons-and-episodes/10009/3 "2010-03-03T00:41:09Z")
so I would have to amend each episode tag from 1,2,3,4 to 01,02,03,04 manually?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2010, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-a-0-to-all-itunes-seasons-and-episodes/10009/4 "2010-03-03T18:55:04Z")
No, these values are integer values only which cannot have leading zeros.
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### Author:  [@slov92](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/slov92)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2010, 1:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-a-0-to-all-itunes-seasons-and-episodes/10009/5 "2010-03-04T01:05:33Z")
how about if I wanted to amend all the itunesepisode tags to reflect the season number also.
E.G. Lost - Season 1, Episode 3 = 103
```
Season 1, Episode 4 = 104
```
Bearing in mind that my tags read as follows:
Artist - Lost
Album - Season 1
Track - 3
itunestvshow - Lost
itunesepisode - 3
itunesseason - 1
The reason I ask is that there is a glitch in the 3.0 apple software and episodes of the same TV show, but different season end up in the wrong order on iphone/ ipod touch.
They appear as 011, 021, 012, 021 etc.
The only way around it is to tag the episode with the season number and a 0 prefixing it.
Hope I am making myself clear.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2010, 6:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-a-0-to-all-itunes-seasons-and-episodes/10009/6 "2010-03-04T06:20:56Z")
See [Tagging TV Shows for iTunes with Mp3tag](http://fheidenreich.de/blog/127/tagging-tv-shows-for-itunes-with-mp3tag/) 🙂
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### Author:  [@slov92](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/slov92)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2010, 6:02am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-a-0-to-all-itunes-seasons-and-episodes/10009/7 "2010-03-05T06:02:55Z")
Yes this is what I used to set this up originally.
But the post doesn't answer my questions.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2010, 6:10am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-a-0-to-all-itunes-seasons-and-episodes/10009/8 "2010-03-05T06:10:09Z")
First, make sure that your using the correct field names (it's TVEPISODE and TVSEASON). Have you also added a TVEPISODE **ID** field? If not, I'd create this via an action **Format value**
_Field:_ **TVEPISODEID**
~~_Formatstring:_ **LST%tvepisode%S$%tvseason%**~~
_Formatstring:_ **LST%tvseason%E$num(%tvepisode%,2)**
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### Author:  [@slov92](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/slov92)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2010, 4:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-a-0-to-all-itunes-seasons-and-episodes/10009/9 "2010-03-10T04:50:38Z")
Great - thanks. Will try that out and get back to you
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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/adding-a-0-to-all-itunes-seasons-and-episodes/10009/10 "2026-02-09T12:22:13Z")