# Hidden Track Field
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hidden-track-field/15468
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [February 4, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hidden-track-field/15468 "2014-02-04T01:22:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@CharWill51](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/CharWill51)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hidden-track-field/15468/1 "2014-02-04T01:22:08Z")
I have an audiobook that has 10 disks. I want to listen to it in the car with my MPS player so I ripped it and used the auto numbering wizard to put all the tracks in sequence so I don't have to look for the next album/CD name while I am driving. The problem is that not all of the tracks got renumbered. They look fine in MP3Tag but when I played them some are out of sequence. I looked at the Properties/Detail in Windows and instead of the field name "Track" there is a field name "#" sign. The value in the # field is not sequential in the troublesome files. How can I find this hidden field name in MP3Tag and delete the entire field so that I can rerun the auto numbering tool and get the correct sequence?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2014, 5:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hidden-track-field/15468/2 "2014-02-04T05:21:11Z")
You see all visible fields of a track in the "Extended tags" dialog: press Alt-T to open it.
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### Author:  [@CharWill51](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/CharWill51)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hidden-track-field/15468/3 "2014-02-04T19:18:17Z")
I have tried that but it doesn't seem to work. Track 010 from disk 1, "song" 10 has
been renumbered. See image 01, clipboard from MP3tag. However when I look at
Properties/Details in Windows is shows up in the "#" field as 8 (image 02, clipboard from Prop/Det).
This is the track number that the MP3 player recognized. I have tried renaming and investigating
with APE clicked (Options page) and unclicked. When I look at "Customized Columns" the #
field is not present there either.
Any other ideas?
BTW is there a way to word wrap this forum message box?
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hidden-track-field/15468/4 "2014-02-04T19:22:33Z")
Aha!
There is a bug in the Windows Explorer that interprets 3-digit-numbers as octal values instead of decimal.
so 010 becomes an 8 ...
If you reformat the tracknumber to 2 or 4 digits it should work.
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### Author:  [@CharWill51](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/CharWill51)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hidden-track-field/15468/5 "2014-02-04T19:59:45Z")
I was just about to post that when I dropped the leading zeros the Prop/Det # went to 10.
The bad news is that it is not just Windows. I have a Creative Zen MP3 player and it
interprets it as an 8 also.
Thank you
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2014, 5:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hidden-track-field/15468/6 "2014-02-05T05:38:18Z")
> [@CharWill51](#):
>
> I was just about to post that when I dropped the leading zeros the Prop/Det # went to 10.
> The bad news is that it is not just Windows. I have a Creative Zen MP3 player and it
> interprets it as an 8 also.
As this only happens with leading zeros you just have to avoid them.
You can renumber the files starting fom 101 or even use a renumbering scheme using the first digit for the CD.
101 First track first CD
201 First track second CD