# \# in File Manager vs Track in Mp3tag

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/in-file-manager-vs-track-in-mp3tag/43895
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 16, 2018, 4:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/in-file-manager-vs-track-in-mp3tag/43895 "2018-12-16T04:06:33Z")
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### Author: ![AKoz](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@AKoz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AKoz)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2018, 4:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/in-file-manager-vs-track-in-mp3tag/43895/1 "2018-12-16T04:06:33Z")

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This is my first experience with Mp3tag and I am using v2.91. I am trying to load an audio book in a Sansa Clip but the ordering of the files in the Sansa is not correct. I think I have determined that the Sansa is ordering by the Track while displaying the title. Regardless, when I use Mp3tag to change the Track to the first 3 numbers of the Filename it seems successful in Mp3tag. When I look at the results in Windows 10 File Manager the results are not the same. Should the # in File Manager show the same as Track in Mp3tag? I tried using a 4 digit Track as suggested in another post but that did not help. Here are some screenshots for an example.

 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/0/02c8efcace35db62972ecfec2aff02eabd31e1db.png)  
Original in File manager: # Sequence is 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,...

 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/e/ef9a09623fc48fc93c9387b6196ea93bcfdaf135.png)  
Original in Mp3Tag

 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f5e18c310f3e332c53a7e8befb874a9bba8a04c0.png)  
After in Mp3Tag  
Action(Quick)\>Format Value\>Format Field:Track, Format String:$left(%\_filename%,3)

 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/8/896dce7a2ec06ce16504227ea1ae03f9744946cc.png)  
After Action in File manager: # Sequence is 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,8,9,10,11,...

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### Author: ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2018, 5:34am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/in-file-manager-vs-track-in-mp3tag/43895/2 "2018-12-16T05:34:47Z")

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> [@\[X\] Auto-renumbering with 100+ files in folder](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-auto-renumbering-with-100-files-in-folder/19661/2):
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> A bug it is and a known one, too. Yet it is a Windows explorer bug: it interprets 3-digit numbers as octal values (instead of decimal ones).

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### Author: ![AKoz](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@AKoz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AKoz)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2018, 6:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/in-file-manager-vs-track-in-mp3tag/43895/3 "2018-12-16T06:41:05Z")

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Okay. Thank you. I had read about it in another post but I understood more leading zeros was the work around. Now I suppose breaking the audio book into 2 volumes is the work around as there are 191 files.

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#### Post date: [December 16, 2018, 7:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/in-file-manager-vs-track-in-mp3tag/43895/4 "2018-12-16T07:39:59Z")

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> [@AKoz](#):
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> Now I suppose breaking the audio book into 2 volumes is the work around as there are 191 files.

I think this is only necessary if the sorting of the windows explorer is important for you.  
What your player needs for correct sorting maybe another case.

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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: [January 15, 2019, 7:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/in-file-manager-vs-track-in-mp3tag/43895/5 "2019-01-15T07:40:02Z")

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