# building my own tags
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/building-my-own-tags/3512
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 1, 2006, 10:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/building-my-own-tags/3512 "2006-07-01T10:58:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@chelmerville](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chelmerville)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 10:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/building-my-own-tags/3512/1 "2006-07-01T10:58:22Z")
Hi, First of all - What a great Program!!!
I'm sure I can get it to do what I want it to do, but so far - no luck.
First a bit of background. A store in the UK (Argos) is selling the Venturer 40GB MP3 player for the amazing price of £50 (70 Euros) and I fell for the temptation...
What you get is a hard disk MP3 player with 40BG storage about the size of a Sony Walkman cassette player and weighing 260 grammes. So it ain't small!! But that doesn't worry me.
One of it's most annoying features is that when I play a CD, it always plays the tracks in alphabetical order (i.ei it ignores the track number tag).
I've used MP3Tag to create a new filename and the format was
```
$left(%album%,6)-$NUM(%discnumber%,1)-$num(%track%,2) - %title%
```
So a track from the Patti Smith album "Horses" that was 01 Gloria.wma. Became
Horses-0-01 - Gloria.wma
I wanted to include the disk number to group tracks from multi-disk sets.
The idea being to have the first 6 characters of the album title as a way to group tracks for each album.
I transferred the files to the player and.... it failed.
For all modes apart from view by File/Folder it still sorted the tracks in alphabetical order!
I now need to do the same for the tag. I manually changed the track tags for about 4 tracks to the format and when I downloaded it - the results were exactly what I wanted.
Now, all I need is a way to automate this process so that I can change all the tags automatically.
Any ideas???
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 11:23am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/building-my-own-tags/3512/2 "2006-07-01T11:23:43Z")
You can make a new action "Format value" where you can fill a tag field with the values of other tag fields.
[Actions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1)
[https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/format](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/format)
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/building-my-own-tags/3512/3 "2026-02-09T12:19:48Z")