# Name Conflict Resolutions
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/name-conflict-resolutions/48803
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [April 30, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/name-conflict-resolutions/48803 "2020-04-30T21:40:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@christianbethel](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/christianbethel)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/name-conflict-resolutions/48803/1 "2020-04-30T21:40:54Z")
I would greatly appreciated if mp3tag was updated with an auto rename feature so I don't get that annoying "this name already exists" popup a la Windows Explorer. I have several albums with songs who have identical names.
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2020, 7:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/name-conflict-resolutions/48803/2 "2020-05-01T07:00:18Z")
I made a simlilar suggestion 11 years ago and if I remember right this solution was implimented in Mp3Tag for some time.
> [@Verhalten bei gleichen Dateinamen in einem Ordner](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/verhalten-bei-gleichen-dateinamen-in-einem-ordner/9295):
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> Wenn man z.B. durch Konvertieren / Tag-Dateiname mehere gleiche Dateinamen in einem Ordner erhalten würde, ignoriert MP3Tag die möglichen Duplikate und wendet die Konvertierung nicht an. Ich würde es begrüßen, wenn man dieses Verhalten steuern könnte, indem man eine Option "Umbennen bei Duplikaten" auswählen könnte. Dabei denke ich an eine Umbenennung in diesem Stil: File: %artist% - %title%.mp3 File: %artist% - %title% (2).mp3 File: %artist% - %title% (3).mp3 usw.
At this time I had a lot of duplicates with uncomplete tags (only artist and title) which I wanted to keep so long till I had time to investigate the files closer and later decide which duplicate is the best.
I would not want this as a general solution because I want to be warned if there is a duplicate file in the folder.
Because I name my album-songs with the scheme `$num(%track%,2) - %artist% - %title%` there will never be the same filename in an album.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2020, 7:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/name-conflict-resolutions/48803/3 "2020-05-01T07:49:14Z")
Here is a link to a thread with multiple contributions and attempts to solve the problem (and it is in English):
> [@Auto Renaming of filenames if duplicated](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-renaming-of-filenames-if-duplicated/9637/):
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> Hi ! How do I make Mp3 tag to add a number at the end of the FILENAME in the case of duplicated filenames? Example: ABBA-Mamma Mia.mp3 - first copy of the song ABBA-Mamma Mia(2).mp3 - second copy of the song Thanks in advance !!!
What it boils down to: it is up to the user to create a pattern that leads to unique filenames - which is more or less that what @poster recommended.
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### Author:  [@christianbethel](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/christianbethel)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/name-conflict-resolutions/48803/4 "2020-05-01T19:52:37Z")
Thanks a lot! Hopefully I can come up with something to solve this problem.