# How to fill empty TITLE fields with FILENAMES
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-fill-empty-title-fields-with-filenames/42813
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 30, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-fill-empty-title-fields-with-filenames/42813 "2018-08-30T16:59:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Jake](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Jake)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-fill-empty-title-fields-with-filenames/42813/1 "2018-08-30T16:59:43Z")
Maybe this will make it more clear:
Thanks in advance! 🙂
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2018, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-fill-empty-title-fields-with-filenames/42813/2 "2018-08-30T17:02:33Z")
Not quite the right converter.
Use Convert\>Filename-Tag instead.
See the FAQs again:
> [@Converters to rename files or to import tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converters-to-rename-files-or-to-import-tags/8016/3):
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> How to import parts of the filename into the tag? Importing tags from filenames and directory names can be done by using the [Converter \> Filename - Tag] Converter \> Filename - Tag. The basic concept is the notion of a format string which describes the structure of the name to import from. The format string is built of either standard text (e.g., Music), placeholders (such as %artist%, %title%, ...), or backslash characters \ that denote directory structures. Here is an example that imports t…
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### Author:  [@Jake](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Jake)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-fill-empty-title-fields-with-filenames/42813/3 "2018-08-30T17:08:16Z")
Thanks for spending time replying to me dude, have a good day! 😊
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2018, 5:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-fill-empty-title-fields-with-filenames/42813/4 "2018-08-30T17:10:26Z")
Perhaps then a small addition:
In your case the format string would probably look like
%artist% - %title%
which fills both fields: ARTIST and TITLE
If you really only want to fill TITLE then use
%dummy% - %title%
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### Author:  [@Jake](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Jake)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-fill-empty-title-fields-with-filenames/42813/5 "2018-08-30T17:13:19Z")
OMG, you're a G man, I was about to ask for that..
Thank u! 😊😛
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### Author:  [@Pompey1952](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Pompey1952)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-fill-empty-title-fields-with-filenames/42813/6 "2021-11-24T15:26:12Z")
This solved a problem I was having as well so thank you.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-fill-empty-title-fields-with-filenames/42813/7 "2021-12-24T15:26:23Z")
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