# How to fill empty Title tag from filename without Track Nr

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-fill-empty-title-tag-from-filename-without-track-nr/44445
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [February 6, 2019, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-fill-empty-title-tag-from-filename-without-track-nr/44445 "2019-02-06T13:03:49Z")
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### Author: ![JoeBoatman](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@JoeBoatman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JoeBoatman)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-fill-empty-title-tag-from-filename-without-track-nr/44445/1 "2019-02-06T13:03:49Z")

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Many of my tracks have no Title tag so my music player, Foobar2000, populates its displayed Title with the file name - but this is prefixed with the track number so it looks like  
nn Track Title  
How can I select the tracks in MP3TAG and automatically populate the Title tag from the filename but without the track number? Currenty I manually type the Title.  
I realise I could populate all the tags with data from an online database.

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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 1:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-fill-empty-title-tag-from-filename-without-track-nr/44445/2 "2019-02-06T13:09:48Z")

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see the FAQs:

> [@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…

Use  
%track% %title%

and an almost identical question:

> [@How to fill empty TITLE fields with FILENAMES](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-fill-empty-title-fields-with-filenames/42813):
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> Maybe this will make it more clear: Thanks in advance! slight_smile