# (Newbie) - Unsuccesful copying filename to title
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/newbie-unsuccesful-copying-filename-to-title/11349
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 28, 2010, 4:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/newbie-unsuccesful-copying-filename-to-title/11349 "2010-12-28T04:53:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@dddiam](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dddiam)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2010, 4:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/newbie-unsuccesful-copying-filename-to-title/11349/1 "2010-12-28T04:53:15Z")
I am trying MP3TAG for the first time, and could not get it to work correctly.
I want to copy the filename to the title. I created a new action, of the type "Format".
For the field, I selected TITLE.
For the value, I typed %filename%.
I selected an MP3 file and ran the action. It blanked out the title, and did not replace it with the filename.
I also tried a different new action that set the value to %\_FILENAME%. That did not work either.
What am I missing?
- David D.
MP3TAG ver. 2.47b. Windows 7 Pro 64-bit.
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### Author:  [@mjcm](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mjcm)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2010, 4:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/newbie-unsuccesful-copying-filename-to-title/11349/2 "2010-12-28T04:57:39Z")
This should help
[https://docs.mp3tag.de/converters/import-tags-from-filenames](https://docs.mp3tag.de/converters/import-tags-from-filenames)
If your file name is something like "Toto - Africa.mp3", your would type in "%artist% - %title%".
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### Author:  [@dddiam](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dddiam)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2010, 5:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/newbie-unsuccesful-copying-filename-to-title/11349/3 "2010-12-28T05:18:00Z")
Thanks for the reference, Mike. "%\_filename%" worked! My filenames were not standard; I had renamed them all manually.
I do not know what I typed wrong in my second action group definition.
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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/newbie-unsuccesful-copying-filename-to-title/11349/4 "2026-02-09T12:22:46Z")