# Auto-numbering tracks
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-numbering-tracks/6045
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 9, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-numbering-tracks/6045 "2008-01-09T23:06:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-numbering-tracks/6045/1 "2008-01-09T23:06:15Z")
How do I auto-number the selected tracks in the order of display? I.e. I want the first track's TRACK field set to 1, the second's to 2, etc.
Last time I tried, using %\_counter%, I got unreliable results.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Hubird](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Hubird)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2008, 6:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-numbering-tracks/6045/2 "2008-01-10T06:43:30Z")
Use the auto numbering-wizard, Tools\>auto numbering-wizard. From memory it just sets the track number in the file tag but you can easily and automatically copy the tag to the file name.
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### Author:  [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-numbering-tracks/6045/3 "2008-01-10T17:11:53Z")
That works great for manual operations - thanks. If anyone knows a solution that works in an Action Group, I'd love to know.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-numbering-tracks/6045/4 "2008-01-10T19:15:24Z")
> [@chrisjj](#):
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> Last time I tried, using %\_counter%, I got unreliable results.
Can you please elaborate on this?
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### Author:  [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-numbering-tracks/6045/5 "2008-02-06T19:29:32Z")
Checking...
Sorry, I misrecalled - my unrelaible %\_counter% results were in tracklist display column, not Action. On a test on V2.39n here, %\_counter% works fine in Action.
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### Author:  [@bbmiller](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bbmiller)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-numbering-tracks/6045/6 "2011-07-10T23:18:52Z")
> [@Florian](#):
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> Can you please elaborate on this?
Well I've been converting audio books on CDS to MP3 books. I can get a large number of MP3 files by doing a rip to MP3 using a ripping program. Or I can join the files per CD using a joining program in a second step and get not too many files. I would pervert to use a large number of sequential files and then mp3tag editor to sequentially number that tracks in the track field. I have done this manually by writing in track numbers sequentially by hand. But how can I deal with a large number of files by editing the now blank track field in the mp3tag editor with automatic sequential numbers for a large number of fields which are in sequence but not with sequential track numbers? The number of files I will deal with if I don't first join them would make it too tedious to do this by hand.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2025, 11:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-numbering-tracks/6045/7 "2025-11-10T11:25:10Z")
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