# How Do You Change the Name of the Export File?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-you-change-the-name-of-the-export-file/5662
**Category:** Export
**Created:** [October 30, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-you-change-the-name-of-the-export-file/5662 "2007-10-30T16:47:30Z")
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### Author: ![JFord](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/jford/32/4977_2.png) [@JFord](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JFord)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-you-change-the-name-of-the-export-file/5662/1 "2007-10-30T16:47:30Z")

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I always feel like I am posting the stupidest questions, because I can't figure something out and can't find it referenced anywhere.

I have a bunch of different exports and I want them all to have different output file names, but they always come with the name entered in the Export Configuration dialog. I have tried playing with the $FileName() function, but it appears useless.

What am I doing wrong?

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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: [October 30, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-you-change-the-name-of-the-export-file/5662/2 "2007-10-30T19:33:32Z")

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You can use placeholders for the file name, e.g. %artist%-%album%.txt

Kind regards,  
Florian

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### Author: ![JFord](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/jford/32/4977_2.png) [@JFord](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JFord)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-you-change-the-name-of-the-export-file/5662/3 "2007-10-30T20:19:02Z")

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That sounds interesting, but I am not sure how I would use it.

This may work best with an example.

- Export A1 should always have the export file name of "c:\mp3s\ExportA.txt"
- Export B1 should always have the export file name of "c:\mp3s\ExportB.txt"

What do I need to do?

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### Author: ![nickless](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/nickless/32/36_2.png) [@nickless](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/nickless)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-you-change-the-name-of-the-export-file/5662/4 "2007-10-30T20:53:24Z")

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> [@JFord](#):
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> - Export A1 should always have the export file name of "c:\mp3s\ExportA.txt"
> - Export B1 should always have the export file name of "c:\mp3s\ExportB.txt"

Just write this file name as a parameter in the corresponding export, e.g. in A1.mte in the first line:

```
Some text...

```

becomes

```
$filename(c:\mp3s\ExportA.txt)Some text...

```

Regards  
nickless

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### Author: ![JFord](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/jford/32/4977_2.png) [@JFord](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JFord)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-you-change-the-name-of-the-export-file/5662/5 "2007-10-30T21:14:34Z")

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Thanks for your patience. I see what my issue was. You need to run the export before the default choice changes on the dialog box, which makes sense.

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### Author: ![chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2007, 6:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-you-change-the-name-of-the-export-file/5662/6 "2007-11-21T18:04:15Z")

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> What am I doing wrong?

Sounds like the bug reported at [http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?act=...st=0#entry26882](http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?act=ST&f=9&t=6551&st=0#entry26882) , now partially fixed.