# Renaming numbers from file name **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [March 2, 2015, 2:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-numbers-from-file-name/16651 "2015-03-02T14:32:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bahadir90](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@Bahadir90](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Bahadir90)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 2:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-numbers-from-file-name/16651/1 "2015-03-02T14:32:43Z")
Guys, I apologise if the question already exists. I tried everything but I couldn't remove the numbers at the beginning of the many songs. Let's give you an example. 01 Akon - Be With You 02 Akon - Beautiful 01 Akon - Crank It Up 02 Akon - Her Shoes 01 Alexandra Stan - Lollipop 01 Alexandra Stan - All My People 02 Alexandra Stan - Mr Saxobeat 02 Alexandra Stan - One Million ... ... ... ... And many more... I tried to coverter tool from filename to filename but I couldn't manage it. I want to remove the numbers at the beginning without changing the rest of them. I want to do it in batch mode not one by one. I want them like these; Akon - Be With You Akon - Beautiful Akon - Crank It Up Akon - Her Shoes Alexandra Stan - Lollipop Alexandra Stan - All My People Alexandra Stan - Mr Saxobeat Alexandra Stan - One Million What should I do can you please show me with tutorials? I am not good in changing such scripts maybe I'm idiot on this. Thanks in advance. Edit: I did it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-numbers-from-file-name/16651/2 "2015-03-02T17:07:39Z")
The normal act is to have correct tags and to build the filenames from the tags. It is possible to correct only the filenames but I don't think this makes much sense. So if you have tags for artist, title and maybe track, just rebuild the filenames with the coverter Tag-Filename and the format-string: %artist% - %title% It is also possible to do this with an equivelnet action of the type Format Value. If you do not have tags for these files just create them with an action: Action-type: Guess Values Source Format: %\_filename% Guessing Pattern: %track% %artist% - %title% You can put this action in an action-group with the followeing action that builds the new filename from the newly created tags: Action-Type: Format Value Field: \_FILENAME Format String: %artist% - %title% You shpuld always experiment with copies from your files first till you are sure that it works as you expect. ---
**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, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-numbers-from-file-name/16651/3 "2026-02-09T12:25:34Z")
Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC