# Autonumbering challenge
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/autonumbering-challenge/59610
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 3, 2023, 6:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/autonumbering-challenge/59610 "2023-01-03T18:46:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@dmr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dmr)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2023, 6:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/autonumbering-challenge/59610/1 "2023-01-03T18:46:42Z")
Hi
I'm doing something incredibly stupid (nothing new there!). I had autonumbering working last week, but now I can't enable it.
I select all the listed tracks, and then do the autonumber wizard. It opens up a box and counts through the tracks, then apparently completes successfully, but where/how do I now find the numbers?
I've searched to add a "tracknumber" or any other column to the file listing and can't find anything that seems to be the right one.
I know this is simple, because I did it before, but I absolutely can't do it again today.
Many thanks for any help.....
David.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2023, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/autonumbering-challenge/59610/2 "2023-01-03T18:49:04Z")
What kind of files? MP3? FLAC?
Press ALT + T on one of your "autonumbered" files and check if the tag containing this number is exactly the same as in the [column definition](https://docs.mp3tag.de/customization/file-list/#editing-columns) (the fields "Value:" and "Field:").
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### Author:  [@dmr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dmr)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/autonumbering-challenge/59610/3 "2023-01-03T19:17:39Z")
Thank you. These are FLAC files.
I'm not sure what the values should be in "Value" and "Field".
Here is a tag _after_ I ran the auto-numbering wizard and it doesn't show any value anywhere (the track number is not the auto-number, it is just the number of the track on the CD).
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2023, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/autonumbering-challenge/59610/4 "2023-01-03T19:30:12Z")
The Wizard updates the Fields for `TRACK` and (if enabled) `TOTALTRACKS`. Plus if you also choose the disc details it adds `DISCNUMBER` and (if enabled) `TOTALDISCS`.
At a bare minimum, the field you can update with the wizard is `TRACK`. You can change what field this is assigned to.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/autonumbering-challenge/59610/5 "2023-01-03T19:31:25Z")
> [@MotleyG](#):
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> `TOTALTRACKS`
It is actually TRACKTOTAL(which is also shown in the screendump)
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2023, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/autonumbering-challenge/59610/6 "2023-01-03T19:50:24Z")
BTW - I typically use ALAC (lossless mp4) so the total fields may be different. `TRACKTOTAL` and `DISCTOTAL` can be used interchangeable for other formats like FLAC.
There is a full mapping index here for reference.
[https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Tag\_Mapping#Counts\_.26\_Indexes](https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Tag_Mapping#Counts_.26_Indexes)
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### Author:  [@dmr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dmr)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2023, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/autonumbering-challenge/59610/7 "2023-01-03T19:50:45Z")
Thank you. TRACK it is. I'm not quite sure what TRACKTOTAL is/does, the number doesn't make sense, but TRACK is the value I was needing.
As I thought, very easy and obvious, once you know.
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/autonumbering-challenge/59610/8 "2023-01-03T19:52:34Z")
> [@dmr](#):
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> I'm not quite sure what TRACKTOTAL is/does
Typically this is the total count of the tracks on each disc. Some may choose to use it to count all tracks on a set, but that is not the norm. Similarly this is the difference between DISCNUMBER (the current disc) and DISCTOTAL which would be the total discs in a set.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2023, 7:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/autonumbering-challenge/59610/9 "2023-01-03T19:58:07Z")
> [@dmr](#):
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> I'm not quite sure what TRACKTOTAL is/does
Your screenshot is showing the track number 12 (TRACK)
The current medium has a total of 14 tracks (TRACKTOTAL)
Your current medium has the number 5 (DISCNUMBER)
Totally there are 5 (DISCNUMBER) mediums for this set
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### Author:  [@dmr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dmr)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/autonumbering-challenge/59610/10 "2023-01-03T20:33:17Z")
The track total shown in my earlier screen shot just coincidentally implied it was the total count of all tracks.
Here's a better example; I think tracktotal refers to "total number of tracks on this CD" because I've never seen a number higher than a number I'd expect to see on a CD.
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2023, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/autonumbering-challenge/59610/11 "2023-01-03T20:40:46Z")
> [@dmr](#):
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> I think tracktotal refers to "total number of tracks on this CD" because I've never seen a number higher than a number I'd expect to see on a CD
That's exactly what is is intended to be.
Looking at this latest screenshot thought, it seems you have highjacked the TRACK field to do something abnormal. Especially since this is a FLAC file, there should only be a single integer there, without a slash followed by a total count. And the redbook standard for CD is a maximum of 99 tracks. 🤔
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### Author:  [@dmr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dmr)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2023, 9:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/autonumbering-challenge/59610/12 "2023-01-03T21:57:17Z")
Hi, the track numbering you see was created by MP3Tag. It is what you get from the wizard if you specify the "save total count of tracks" option. 😀
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2023, 10:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/autonumbering-challenge/59610/13 "2023-01-03T22:04:00Z")
Could you show us the settings of the tracknumberng wizard?
It looks like you never reset the track number.
The wizard usually needs a change of directory as triger.
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### Author:  [@dmr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dmr)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2023, 5:27am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/autonumbering-challenge/59610/14 "2023-01-06T05:27:25Z")
I simply checked the option to save the total number of tracks. That created the "track number" / "total tracks" format you saw, I think.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2023, 7:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/autonumbering-challenge/59610/15 "2023-01-06T07:17:10Z")
Oh!
The track numbering wizard looks like this in the latest version:
But even in your older version you have not set "Reset counter for each directory" which means that the counter keeps counting.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2023, 9:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/autonumbering-challenge/59610/16 "2023-01-06T09:15:59Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> The track numbering wizard looks like this in the latest version
The screenshot is not from the latest official version (it's v3.18 currently, and it's not an _old_ version), but refers to the latest _beta_ version, available from [here](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/455).
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2023, 9:16am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/autonumbering-challenge/59610/17 "2023-02-05T09:16:05Z")
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