# Punctuation Problems

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/punctuation-problems/12840
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [December 19, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/punctuation-problems/12840 "2011-12-19T19:26:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![alagave](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ea666f/32.png) [@alagave](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/alagave)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/punctuation-problems/12840/1 "2011-12-19T19:26:11Z")

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I've been tagging a lot of music and I see colons, question marks, hyphens and underscores all too often in filename, titles and artists.

Is there a way to create a template so I can change all colons to semi-colons and eliminate all question marks? I typically use the "album artist - artist - album - track - title" format for the filename but spend many hours correcting the noted punctuation errors.

I thought CD-R case conversion might do this but it does not. I realize that different OSs have different rules so a template would be great. I can choose to substitute or eliminate characters as I desire.

Another thing I would like is to move the contents of one tag to another tag.

And I really need access to more tags! In this Christmas season, I want music tagged as Christmas genre. But I need at least one sub-genre to separate comedy, jazz, rock, ant-xmas, etc. Ideally, I would like to keep the musical genre as primary with several sub-genres to describe theme, mood or location.

Really loving the program but have barely scratched the surface of the many features. Thanks!

Al Agave

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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: [December 20, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/punctuation-problems/12840/2 "2011-12-20T05:44:23Z")

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> [@al agave](#):
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> ...  
> Is there a way to create a template so I can change all colons to semi-colons and eliminate all question marks?  
> ... Another thing I would like is to move the contents of one tag to another tag.

These are topics that are dealt with in the FAQs - please have a look there.  
Replacement: [/t/967/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1)  
Copy/Move: [/t/967/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1)

IF you add more genres then make sure that your player supports such a feature.
