# Filename -\> Tag Won't Run
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-tag-wont-run/3163
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 9, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-tag-wont-run/3163 "2006-04-09T15:46:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@albinoazian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/albinoazian)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-tag-wont-run/3163/1 "2006-04-09T15:46:42Z")
I am using version 2.35 and have loaded a bunch of files (~765) and have set up a custom format string, but the ok button is not active. When I go to filename -\> tag everything else works (preview, cancel, help), but no the "ok". Here is my string:
%genre%%artist%%year% - %album% (%comment%) %track% - %title%
Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-tag-wont-run/3163/2 "2006-04-09T15:55:42Z")
It's because the format string doesn't match the schema of your filenames.
Using %genre%%artist%%year% here is useless, because Mp3tag needs at least one character between the different fields to seperate them.
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### Author:  [@albinoazian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/albinoazian)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-tag-wont-run/3163/3 "2006-04-09T17:18:38Z")
I see, it took away my / for sub directories. Duh, I should have noticed that.
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### Author:  [@albinoazian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/albinoazian)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-tag-wont-run/3163/4 "2006-04-09T17:31:02Z")
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> I see, it took away my / for sub directories. Duh, I should have noticed that.
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> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
Ok, here is what I have:
f:\temp\unformatted\tag\genre\artist\year - album (comments)\nn - title
here is the string after i re-added the \
%genre%\%artist%\%year% - %album% (%comment%) %track% - %title%
Do I need to be more specific with the path? i.e. f:\temp\unformatted\tag\%genre%%artist%%year% - %album% (%comment%) %track% - %title%
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-tag-wont-run/3163/5 "2006-04-09T18:38:04Z")
> [@](#):
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> %genre%\%artist%\%year% - %album% (%comment%) %track% - %title%
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> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
Shouldn't your format string be:
%genre%\%artist%\%year% - %album% (%comment%)\%track% - %title%
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### Author:  [@albinoazian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/albinoazian)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-tag-wont-run/3163/6 "2006-04-09T18:46:09Z")
Correctomundo. Sometimes it is the simplest things. I set up that way in tools/options, but when I went to filename -\>tag it removed my . Wierd, works now. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@albinoazian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/albinoazian)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2006, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-tag-wont-run/3163/7 "2006-04-09T18:53:34Z")
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> Correctomundo. Sometimes it is the simplest things. I set up that way in tools/options, but when I went to filename -\>tag it removed my . Wierd, works now. Thanks.
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> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
One more fix needed. For albums that don't have a comment, it doesn't add tags for album and yar. Is there a method to do an if statement? For example, if (%comment%), . . ., ....) I put stuff like remaster, disc 1, etc. as a comment, but not all disks have comments. Suggestions?
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### Author:  [@Ydope](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ydope)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-tag-wont-run/3163/8 "2006-04-09T19:44:53Z")
> [@](#):
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> One more fix needed. For albums that don't have a comment, it doesn't add tags for album and yar. Is there a method to do an if statement? For example, if (%comment%), . . ., ....) I put stuff like remaster, disc 1, etc. as a comment, but not all disks have comments. Suggestions?
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You can create an action and use the if-statement like this:
$if(x,y,z)
if x is true (or exists) y is done otherwise z.
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### Author:  [@albinoazian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/albinoazian)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-tag-wont-run/3163/9 "2006-04-09T20:49:36Z")
> [@](#):
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> You can create an action and use the if-statement like this:
> $if(x,y,z)
> if x is true (or exists) y is done otherwise z.
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> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
Thanks for all of the help guys. One more issue. Since sometimes I had two items in parenthesis {(remaster) (disc 1)} I had to change my string a bit. I made the comments (remaster, mfsl, etc.) now {}. Anyhow, with this string:
$if(\%genre%\%artist%\%year% - %album% {%comment%}\%track% - %title%,%genre%\%artist%\%year% - %album% {%comment%}\%track% - %title%,%genre%\%artist%\%year% - %album%\%track% - %title%
everything works great except i get unformatted plus the artist name in the artist section (unformatted Punk Floyd). Where is my error? Every other tag worked great.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 7:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-tag-wont-run/3163/10 "2006-04-11T07:26:32Z")
$if() functions and scripting is not possible in Convert \> Filename - Tag
One soultion is that you use the converter two times:
First time this string:
%genre%\%artist%\%year% - %album%\%track% - %title%
and then again on the same files this one:
%genre%\%artist%\%year% - %album% {%comment%}\%track% - %title%
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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/filename-tag-wont-run/3163/11 "2026-02-09T12:19:43Z")