# more fields for building filename
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/more-fields-for-building-filename/4933
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [May 26, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/more-fields-for-building-filename/4933 "2007-05-26T20:17:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@scallie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/scallie)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/more-fields-for-building-filename/4933/1 "2007-05-26T20:17:07Z")
Hi,
i use this program since a few days and so far i like it. It's not that difficult to use and it has most of the features you can expect from a tag editor, however i miss something:
it should be possible to add more fields to formatting a filename such as the length and the bitrate.
What i would like to see is that instead of exitting the search dialogue box when there's no match found in discogs, you can re-enter a new search.
Another nice feature or option would be adding an index to a file if the file already exists when converting the filename from the tag.
greetz, scallie
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/more-fields-for-building-filename/4933/2 "2007-05-26T20:47:44Z")
> [@scallie](#):
>
> it should be possible to add more fields to formatting a filename such as the length and the bitrate.
This is already possible using %\_bitrate% or %\_length\_seconds%.
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### Author:  [@scallie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/scallie)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2007, 9:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/more-fields-for-building-filename/4933/3 "2007-05-26T21:31:29Z")
> [@Sebastian Mares](#):
>
> This is already possible using %\_bitrate% or %\_length\_seconds%.
thanks for your reply and the tip, this works great.
But i think it would be more useful should the length be in minutes, don't you?
and it could be handy if you could manually add some extra characters: items in a filename could than be seperated by () or , etc
greetz, scallie
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### Author:  [@sinsu61](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sinsu61)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2007, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/more-fields-for-building-filename/4933/4 "2007-05-28T14:05:33Z")
```
%artist% - %title% ($div(%_length_seconds%,60):$mod(%_length_seconds%,60))
```
That gives you the filename:
Artist - Title - (3:35).mp3
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2007, 2:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/more-fields-for-building-filename/4933/5 "2007-05-28T14:09:33Z")
As colons are not allowed in file names I'd use \_ instead of : 😛
Cheers,
Florian
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### Author:  [@scallie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/scallie)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2007, 3:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/more-fields-for-building-filename/4933/6 "2007-05-28T15:54:39Z")
hi,
i'm a happy dude. although it seems a little complicated, but indeed that's what i was looking for. Now i finally can label my music as it should be and thanks to the possibility of connecting to the databases from freedb and escpecially discogs, i can figuere out the right version, remix or whatever, of a song. As with any program i maybe encounter some shortcomings, bugs, ... in the future but so far the program offers everything i need.
Thanks for the advice and lots of succes.
Greetz, scallie