# Conversion actions
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conversion-actions/4973
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 5, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conversion-actions/4973 "2007-06-05T17:49:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@cookiesmonster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cookiesmonster)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conversion-actions/4973/1 "2007-06-05T17:49:30Z")
Hi,
I have a filename wich is like this 01.Patience - Take That
I want to extract parts of the filename for other colums like track, title and artist.
How can i accomplish this?
Regards!!
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### Author:  [@gottkaiser](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gottkaiser)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2007, 7:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conversion-actions/4973/2 "2007-06-05T19:05:24Z")
Just use the "filename - tag" button with that string:
%track%.%title% - %artist%
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### Author:  [@cookiesmonster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cookiesmonster)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2007, 6:32am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conversion-actions/4973/3 "2007-06-08T06:32:46Z")
When i do this the OK button is greyed out.
What does work is %track% - %title% - %artist% but i would like a dot after the track number
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conversion-actions/4973/4 "2007-06-08T14:34:01Z")
What is EXACTLY your source-filename? Please give us a REAL filename, otherwise it isn't easy to have a guess. 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conversion-actions/4973/5 "2026-02-09T12:20:20Z")