# Newbie quesion "title from file name"

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/newbie-quesion-title-from-file-name/6840
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 22, 2008, 1:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/newbie-quesion-title-from-file-name/6840 "2008-05-22T13:57:28Z")
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### Author: ![aassaf](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@aassaf](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/aassaf)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2008, 1:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/newbie-quesion-title-from-file-name/6840/1 "2008-05-22T13:57:28Z")

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HI,

A simple (i hope) question. How do i mass change titles from file names, or from tags. Furthermore, can i set an autonumber in the title?

Thanks in advance,

A

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### Author: ![cjcpr](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@cjcpr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cjcpr)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2008, 5:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/newbie-quesion-title-from-file-name/6840/2 "2008-05-23T17:12:43Z")

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It is Simple. Select all the Files U wanna create Tags. I hope all your file names follow some pattern. Like "Album1-track01.mp3" somthing like this. Then go to the "Convert" menu. Select File Name to tag name.

There you can configure whatever ur file name pattrern is. (%artist% - %album% - %track% - %title%)

for ex, in my example the file name is

Album1-track01.mp3

For this u create mask like "%album% - %title%"

as soon as I put the Mask, MP3TAG would show u the end result like  
Album - Album1  
Title - track01.

By viewing this U can adjust ur mask and then click ok.

Viola. U are all done.

Good Luck. I am not sure abt the Auto Number Wizard. I hope somebody else would answer it for U.

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2008, 9:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/newbie-quesion-title-from-file-name/6840/3 "2008-05-28T09:48:51Z")

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Since the first answer is very hard to read, I'll also post some explanation:

Just use one of the converters Tag - Filename and Filename - Tag. To number the title, use an action Format value for the field TITLE and a format string like

%title% $num(%\_counter%,2)

This appends an incrementing number at the existing title.

Kind regards,  
Florian

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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, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/newbie-quesion-title-from-file-name/6840/4 "2026-02-09T12:20:57Z")

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