# I am trying to replace the album tag with the value in the length tag

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-am-trying-to-replace-the-album-tag-with-the-value-in-the-length-tag/54332>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [September 10, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-am-trying-to-replace-the-album-tag-with-the-value-in-the-length-tag/54332 "2021-09-10T15:51:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![spleendrivel](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@spleendrivel](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/spleendrivel)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-am-trying-to-replace-the-album-tag-with-the-value-in-the-length-tag/54332/1 "2021-09-10T15:51:50Z")

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I believe I need to convert the length tag but can not find a function to store as string...

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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:** [September 10, 2021, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-am-trying-to-replace-the-album-tag-with-the-value-in-the-length-tag/54332/2 "2021-09-10T15:55:40Z")

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See the help on some more properties, e.g. several incarnations of length.  
[https://docs.mp3tag.de/export](https://docs.mp3tag.de/export)

Yet, I would not replace the data in ALBUM (unless it is meaningless data) as the property %\_length% is not really a tag but a property written by the encoder. If you have a field LENGTH, then this is a plain text user-defined field which will not change, even if you modify the file length.

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**Author:** ![spleendrivel](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@spleendrivel](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/spleendrivel)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-am-trying-to-replace-the-album-tag-with-the-value-in-the-length-tag/54332/3 "2021-09-10T19:07:46Z")

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I don't remember how I did this in the past, but I put the length in the album field so I could sort by length in the Poweramp app on my phone. That was why I was trying to do this with new speakers I have in mp3 format.

Thanks,

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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:** [September 10, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-am-trying-to-replace-the-album-tag-with-the-value-in-the-length-tag/54332/4 "2021-09-10T19:12:20Z")

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Try Converter\>Tag-Tag for the field ALBUM  
Format string: %\_length% \_ %album%

Like that you keep the data of the album name but still have the length as first part in that field. If you find a better player that can also sort by length, you can strip the then superfluous length easily from album

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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:** [February 9, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-am-trying-to-replace-the-album-tag-with-the-value-in-the-length-tag/54332/5 "2026-02-09T12:29:24Z")

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