# How do I edit Title tag to be actual filename?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-edit-title-tag-to-be-actual-filename/4924
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 24, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-edit-title-tag-to-be-actual-filename/4924 "2007-05-24T16:36:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@los255](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/los255)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-edit-title-tag-to-be-actual-filename/4924/1 "2007-05-24T16:36:24Z")
50 Cent- Straight to the Bank
^That is the actual filename^
How can I edit songs' Title tags to be the actual filename? All at once..... or without renaming them one by one.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2007, 8:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-edit-title-tag-to-be-actual-filename/4924/2 "2007-05-24T20:29:16Z")
Putting the filename in the title tag can be done with "Convert \> filename - tag" with the format string %title%
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### Author:  [@los255](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/los255)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2007, 2:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-edit-title-tag-to-be-actual-filename/4924/3 "2007-05-25T02:57:37Z")
I tried your method and nothing happened ☹. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough and if you know how to do this, can you tell me the exact stuff type in and where? I'll show you an example:
[](http://img409.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mp3taghelptg8.png)
I have many more songs but ill show this one as an example
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-edit-title-tag-to-be-actual-filename/4924/4 "2007-05-25T17:30:55Z")
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> I tried your method and nothing happened
This is not a useful error description. You must describe exactly what you did and what did not work.
You must also select the files so that the menu is activated.
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### Author:  [@BENEFACTOR](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/BENEFACTOR)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-edit-title-tag-to-be-actual-filename/4924/5 "2007-05-31T17:27:02Z")
Hi Los255,
you can solve your problem very simply: Just choose ...
Filename - Tag
and put the following phrase into the formatstring editor
%artist% - %title%
Afterwards you'll get exactly what you want and you can change thousands of mp3-Tags in a very short time.
Hope I could help you.
Bye from Germany,
BENEFACTOR
> [@los255](#):
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> I tried your method and nothing happened ☹. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough and if you know how to do this, can you tell me the exact stuff type in and where? I'll show you an example:
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> I have many more songs but ill show this one as an example
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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/how-do-i-edit-title-tag-to-be-actual-filename/4924/6 "2026-02-09T12:20:19Z")