# Padding with 3 numbers

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/padding-with-3-numbers/70152
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 16, 2025, 10:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/padding-with-3-numbers/70152 "2025-11-16T22:42:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author: ![arork](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/arork/32/17102_2.png) [@arork](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/arork)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2025, 10:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/padding-with-3-numbers/70152/1 "2025-11-16T22:42:02Z")

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Hello,

I have an album with the number of tracks goes above 100. And the padding for the from the auto numbering wizard is not working. It does appear we can have a padding of 3 numbers , only 2.

Is this correct or I did I miss something ?

Cheers

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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2025, 6:10am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/padding-with-3-numbers/70152/2 "2025-11-17T06:10:53Z")

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I get leading zeros to pad 3-digit numbers:

 ![grafik](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/b/2/b2f5d8a15dde3ea017b0ea8d7ef205d498cc3070.png)

Please note that the windows explorer has problems with 3-digit numbers with leading zeros. It interprets them as octal values instead of decimal ones.

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### Author: ![arork](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/arork/32/17102_2.png) [@arork](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/arork)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/padding-with-3-numbers/70152/3 "2025-11-17T15:28:29Z")

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my problem is not coming from explorer but mp3tag :

 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/3/8/388bd6aae2808eba26a076fbd991473b30f98a27.png)

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### Author: ![arork](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/arork/32/17102_2.png) [@arork](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/arork)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/padding-with-3-numbers/70152/4 "2025-11-17T15:29:28Z")

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![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/a/a/aaf7142c067f0ff19d0b15f7d21c9ccbe17d7238.png)

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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: [November 17, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/padding-with-3-numbers/70152/5 "2025-11-17T15:40:07Z")

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Are those MP4 files?

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### Author: ![arork](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/arork/32/17102_2.png) [@arork](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/arork)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/padding-with-3-numbers/70152/6 "2025-11-17T15:54:23Z")

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there are m4a indeed !!!

I thought it was coming from

 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/3X/c/e/ceee43b91a67fbff751654976d0a4bc4ffe2898f.png)

But apparently not…thanks

any work around ?

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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/padding-with-3-numbers/70152/7 "2025-11-17T15:58:46Z")

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> [@arork](#):
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> any work around ?

No. MP4 tags do not allow zeros for padding as the field for TRACK is purely numeric.  
MP3tag would sort the file correctly and so would also decent players.  
If you need padded numbers e.g. in the filename, then use $num(%track%,3) instead of the simple %track%

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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: [December 17, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/padding-with-3-numbers/70152/8 "2025-12-17T15:59:29Z")

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