# Can I arrange titles the way they are recorded?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-i-arrange-titles-the-way-they-are-recorded/12743
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** player
**Created:** [November 27, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-i-arrange-titles-the-way-they-are-recorded/12743 "2011-11-27T05:16:34Z")
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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2011, 9:23am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-i-arrange-titles-the-way-they-are-recorded/12743/2 "2011-11-27T09:23:20Z")

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Check, if if really uses the title tag - if so, you can append the title tag with an action as described in the FAQs  
[/t/967/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1)  
the format string would look like this:  
$num(%track%,2) - %title%.

It could also be that your car stereo uses the filename. If you want to rename the files then use the (menu) converter tag-filename and a mask that looks like this:  
%album% \_ $num(%track%,2) \_ %title%  
This would then create filenames that group the tracks by album and then by track - pretty much like the CD it came from.  
BTW: what does the filename now look like?  
Actually: if your stereo really uses the title as sort criterion then you would also have to refill the title tags as with only a leading tracknumber you would get all the files with a leading one, then all those with a leading 2 and so on - but probably you want to have them album by album.

As your car stereo apparentyl follows very specific rules I would always create a separate set of copied files to be used on that device and keep the other library as it is.

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