# How to use Apostrophe in tag - tag

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-use-apostrophe-in-tag-tag/70893
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 17, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-use-apostrophe-in-tag-tag/70893 "2026-03-17T17:15:35Z")
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### Author: ![Faalscholver](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Faalscholver](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Faalscholver)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-use-apostrophe-in-tag-tag/70893/1 "2026-03-17T17:15:35Z")

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I am trying to changing multiple titles from

Title

to

Title (Live ‘99)

I can’t use `%title% (Live ‘99)` because that results in invalid syntax. Is there a workaround for this?

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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: [March 17, 2026, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-use-apostrophe-in-tag-tag/70893/2 "2026-03-17T17:19:20Z")

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It's using two of those: `''`

> **[Characters with Special Functionality - Format Strings and Placeholders – Mp3tag...](https://docs.mp3tag.de/format/#characters-with-special-functionality)**
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> Mp3tag uses format strings in various of its features to describe the structure of file names and imported data. A format string is built of either standard text (e.g., Music), placeholders (such as %artist%, %title%, …), or backslash characters \\...

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### Author: ![Faalscholver](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Faalscholver](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Faalscholver)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2026, 6:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-use-apostrophe-in-tag-tag/70893/3 "2026-03-17T18:13:30Z")

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I see! Thank you! 🙂

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2026, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-use-apostrophe-in-tag-tag/70893/4 "2026-03-24T18:14:11Z")

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