# mini-Stumper
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mini-stumper/11459
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 18, 2011, 2:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mini-stumper/11459 "2011-01-18T02:20:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@nitz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/nitz)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2011, 2:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mini-stumper/11459/1 "2011-01-18T02:20:57Z")
I'm sure there's an easy way to do this, but I'm having trouble with it. Suppose I have two tracks:
Bob Dylan - The Basement Tapes, CD 01 - 04 - Tears of Rage.mp3
The Beatles - White Album, CD 02 - 07 - Goodnight.mp3
How can I write I write a Filename-to-Tag Action that would read the Track values as 104 and 207, respectively?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2011, 5:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mini-stumper/11459/2 "2011-01-18T05:20:25Z")
> [@nitz](#):
>
> ..- Bob Dylan - The Basement Tapes, CD 01 - 04 - Tears of Rage.mp3
> The Beatles - White Album, CD 02 - 07 - Goodnight.mp3
Enter the field where you want to store the data twice:
e.g.
%artist% - %album, CD %track% - %track% - %title%
(also note that you have to enter the commas, hyphens and pieces of text that should not be stored in tags as part of the mask).
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2011, 5:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mini-stumper/11459/3 "2011-01-18T05:46:37Z")
> [@nitz](#):
>
> I'm sure there's an easy way to do this, but I'm having trouble with it. Suppose I have two tracks:
>
> Bob Dylan - The Basement Tapes, CD 01 - 04 - Tears of Rage.mp3
> The Beatles - White Album, CD 02 - 07 - Goodnight.mp3
>
> How can I write I write a Filename-to-Tag Action that would read the Track values as 104 and 207, respectively?
>
> Thanks.
Do you need a tutorial "How can I write a Filename-to-Tag Action"?
Hmm, I think, for you as a long time Mp3tag user it would be waste of time.
Regarding the technical aspect of your request the following Formatstring would be the closest approach.
**%DUMMY% - %DUMMY%, CD 0%TRACK% - %TRACK% - %DUMMY%**
It will give
TRACK: 1 04
TRACK: 2 07
So in a second Action step the remaining space character needs replacing by nothing.
It seems that you should go completely the Action way.
Begin Action Group **Test 2011#20110118.Track**
Action #1
_Actiontype 7:_ **Import tag fields (guess values)**
_Source format:_ **%\_FILENAME%**
_Guessing pattern:_ **%DUMMY%,÷CD÷%TEMP1%÷-÷%TEMP2%÷-÷%DUMMY%**
Action #2
_Actiontype 5:_ **Format value**
_Field:_ **TRACK**
_Formatstring:_ **$num(%TEMP1%,1)$num(%TEMP2%,2)**
Action #3
_Actiontype 9:_ **Remove fields**
_Fields to remove (semicolon separated):_ **TEMP1;TEMP2**
_Note: Replace each special ÷ character with one space character._
End Action Group **Test 2011#20110118.Track** (3 Actions)
DD.20110118.0748.CET
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### Author:  [@nitz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/nitz)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2011, 6:13am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mini-stumper/11459/4 "2011-01-18T06:13:34Z")
My problem was that I couldn't get rid of the space between the two parts of the number, which I should have mentioned in my first post. But I believe that problem is now solved. Thanks to both of you.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mini-stumper/11459/5 "2026-02-09T12:22:50Z")