# Change file name

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-file-name/5128
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 9, 2007, 3:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-file-name/5128 "2007-07-09T15:40:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![steve1k](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@steve1k](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/steve1k)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2007, 3:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-file-name/5128/1 "2007-07-09T15:40:35Z")

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Can you tell me how to change the file name from

ABBA - Arrival.mp3  
ABBA - Dancing Queen.mp3  
ABBA - Dum Dum Diddle.mp3

to

01 - Arrival.mp3  
02 - Dancing Queen.mp3  
03 - Dum Dum Diddle.mp3

and so on for the whole file

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-file-name/5128/2 "2007-07-09T18:25:30Z")

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Make sure that the tags of your file contain the title information. After that you can use the converter Tag - Filename with a format string like

%\_counter% - %title%

to rename the files.

Kind regards,  
florian

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-file-name/5128/3 "2026-02-09T12:20:23Z")

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