# Renameing issue for idiot

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renameing-issue-for-idiot/19247>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [August 20, 2017, 7:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renameing-issue-for-idiot/19247 "2017-08-20T07:48:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![idmanager](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/a183cd/32.png) [@idmanager](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/idmanager)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 7:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renameing-issue-for-idiot/19247/1 "2017-08-20T07:48:42Z")

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Hi  
in the past i have been renaming my albums title and CD number by manual, i have had a play about with the actions but with no luck, i have over 1000 albums to rename and wondered if all possible somebody could point me in the direction to get the actions working

EXAMPLE  
my current layout has the Album tag as  
NOW THATS WHAT I CALL MUSIC 21- CD1  
NOW THATS WHAT I CALL MUSIC 21- CD2  
NOW THATS WHAT I CALL MUSIC 21- CD3  
NOW THATS WHAT I CALL MUSIC 21- CD4  
NOW THATS WHAT I CALL MUSIC 21- CD5  
but the disc number tag empty  
i would like to rename the Album tag to remove the CD1 and add a 1 to the disc tag  
so the albums would read  
NOW THATS WHAT I CALL MUSIC 21  
and the disc tag would read 1 or what ever the cd is

i am sure this is very easy if you know what to do and could save me hours

thanks

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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:** [August 20, 2017, 7:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renameing-issue-for-idiot/19247/2 "2017-08-20T07:57:56Z")

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You can try an action of the type "Guess value" for ALBUM:  
Guessing pattern: %dummy% CD%discnumber%  
This should put the values behind "CD" into the field DISCNUMBER.

The second action would also be of the type "Guess value", for ALBUM again:  
Guessing: %album% - CD%dummy%  
this should cut everything following the hyphen.

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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:** [August 20, 2017, 7:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renameing-issue-for-idiot/19247/3 "2017-08-20T07:58:41Z")

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Hi there,

you can use an action Guess values where you use **%album%** as "Source format" (this is where the data comes from) and **%album%- CD%discnumber%** as "Guessing pattern" (this is how the data should be distributed among fields).

Kind regards  
– Florian

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**Author:** ![idmanager](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/a183cd/32.png) [@idmanager](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/idmanager)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 1:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renameing-issue-for-idiot/19247/4 "2017-08-20T13:34:37Z")

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Thank you for your help, i am now able to sort this using the above method

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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, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renameing-issue-for-idiot/19247/5 "2026-02-09T12:26:57Z")

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