# Appending something to the titles of tracks in an album
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/appending-something-to-the-titles-of-tracks-in-an-album/65199
**Category:** Mac
**Created:** [July 4, 2024, 8:13am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/appending-something-to-the-titles-of-tracks-in-an-album/65199 "2024-07-04T08:13:09Z")
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### Author:  [@dkepler1627](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dkepler1627)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 8:13am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/appending-something-to-the-titles-of-tracks-in-an-album/65199/1 "2024-07-04T08:13:09Z")
I have a language learning program I wish to import into the Music app on my Macbook.
The "artist" is Pimsleur. The "album" is German 1. The album has thirty tracks. Each track is originally titled Unit 01, Unit 02, Unit 03, etc.
Right now, in the Music app, the title of each track is %Album% %track%. I don't know how that happened.
I wish to change the title of each track so it shows the album and the unit.
e.g. German 1-01, German 1-02, German 1-03.
I must have the name of the album because there are two more albums, German 2 and German 3, and each has thirty tracks.
When I imported all three albums into the Music app I ended up with three tracks titled Unit 01 but there's no way to know if it's Unit 01 for German 1 or German 2 or German 3. This is why each track must show the name of the album.
I am a new user. I know NOTHING about Mp3tag or about tags in general. I seek a clear, simple explanation.
I have attached two screen images. One shows how the files look in Mp3tag now.
The other shows how it looks on the Music app.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 8:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/appending-something-to-the-titles-of-tracks-in-an-album/65199/2 "2024-07-04T08:20:25Z")
How did you get the strange string "%album% %track%" as data into TITLE? Via the tag-panel?
If you want to assign the contents of other fields to the field TITLE, then use Convert\>Tag-Tag for TITLE
Format string: %album% %track%
or as the screenshot shows that you have "German 1-01" in TRACK which should also appear in TITLE, simply use
Format string: %track%
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### Author:  [@dkepler1627](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dkepler1627)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 8:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/appending-something-to-the-titles-of-tracks-in-an-album/65199/3 "2024-07-04T08:28:51Z")
I have no idea. I'm just clicking on stuff, almost randomly, hoping I stumble across the solution. I click, try something, then import it again into the Music app. So far, I haven't found the answer.
I don't understand your suggestion but I'll fiddle with it and see if it works. As I said, I know NOTHING about tags, about the program Mp3tags, etc. Everything you say is 90% Chinese to me, and the 10% I understand I use as clues to try random shit. Maybe I'll get lucky. Fingers crossed.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 8:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/appending-something-to-the-titles-of-tracks-in-an-album/65199/4 "2024-07-04T08:49:49Z")
Did you find the menu Convert and in it Tag-Tag?
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### Author:  [@dkepler1627](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dkepler1627)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2024, 10:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/appending-something-to-the-titles-of-tracks-in-an-album/65199/5 "2024-11-23T22:15:40Z")
I found it.
I have no idea what it does. I don't know what "Tag-Tag" means and the program doesn't explain it anywhere.
As I said before, I know NOTHING. I paid for this because it is supposedly easy to use. I'm trying to do a very basic thing, but every time I try I spend an hour clicking around and getting nowhere.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2024, 10:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/appending-something-to-the-titles-of-tracks-in-an-album/65199/6 "2024-11-23T22:20:18Z")
So perhaps a more systematic approach would be to have a look at the documentation:
> [@Basics and Overview](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/basics-and-overview/51957):
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> Mp3tag for Mac has two main window components: the Tag Panel on the left the File List where the files are listed Tag Panel The Tag Panel shows the tag field contents of the selected files and allows for editing the fields. It also has a dedicated area for displaying the embedded cover art of the selected files. If more than one file is selected, the Tag Panel shows \< keep \> for fields with values that differ between the files. It shows the actual field value, if it's the same for all sele…
As I made a suggestion what you could try, I would have expected that you did so after you successfully
> [@dkepler1627](#):
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> found it.