# Filename to Tag No Number

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-to-tag-no-number/57594>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [June 10, 2022, 12:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-to-tag-no-number/57594 "2022-06-10T12:59:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Traned](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Traned](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Traned)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 12:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-to-tag-no-number/57594/1 "2022-06-10T12:59:31Z")

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I often use Filename to Tag conversion but it puts the track number and the name into the tag field. Then I need to manually edit each track to remove the track number from within the tag. I would like to know how to change it so it does not load the track number.

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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:** [June 10, 2022, 1:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-to-tag-no-number/57594/2 "2022-06-10T13:07:25Z")

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You'd need to distinguish between track and title also in the format string. Please see

> **[First Steps – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/getting-started/first-steps/#importing-parts-of-the-file-name-to-the-tag)**
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> A collection of tasks with step-by-step instructions intended for novice users of Mp3tag. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.

and if this doesn't help, please send an example filename so that we can give matching suggestions for the format string to use.

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**Author:** ![Traned](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Traned](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Traned)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 12:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-to-tag-no-number/57594/3 "2022-07-01T12:09:55Z")

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Thanks Florian, but due to my very limited programming skills I am unable to get it to work. Using %dummy% doesn't seem to do anything???  
My example is:  
Filename = 01 I'll Go Crazy.mp3  
I want to copy to tag = I'll Go Crazy (exclude the "01 ")

Can you share the syntax for this?  
Thanks, Andy

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**Author:** ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-to-tag-no-number/57594/4 "2022-07-01T12:29:36Z")

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> [@Traned](#):
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> 01 I'll Go Crazy.mp3

if you use the Convert Filename -\> Tag ALT + 2 you can see immediately in the preview if your format string works as expected. You can start with  
`%dummy% %title%`  
This would skip the text/numbers before the first space (send it to dummy = send it to nowhere) and then write everything after the space into the TITLE tag.

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**Author:** ![Traned](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Traned](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Traned)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-to-tag-no-number/57594/5 "2022-07-01T18:40:46Z")

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Thanks, that worked! I was missing the space between the %dummy% and %title%

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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:** [July 31, 2022, 6:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-to-tag-no-number/57594/6 "2022-07-31T18:41:20Z")

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