# Feature Request - Charactor Substitution for Filenames for Invalid Charactors

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-charactor-substitution-for-filenames-for-invalid-charactors/11236
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [December 5, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-charactor-substitution-for-filenames-for-invalid-charactors/11236 "2010-12-05T19:56:43Z")
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### Author: ![sambartle](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sambartle](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sambartle)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-charactor-substitution-for-filenames-for-invalid-charactors/11236/3 "2010-12-05T20:13:40Z")

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After posting this I went on a much further search by just browsing random threads and found this: [How Do I replace ? and / with \_](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/11106/2)

Which works, although its no where near as graceful as EAC's method outlined above.

Validate() only replaces ALL invalids with the SAME charactor.. which isnt ideal.. So i would still love to see this feature as it would help many people a lot if this was automatic!

I also feel as mentioned above that this should be a core feature since its not optional.. you cannot use those charactors.. so the software should automatically replace them with something sensible, without the user needing too add a validate each time.

Heres hoping someone agrees and theres enough interest to get this as a new feature.

Thanks for the great app even if it doesnt make it 🙂

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