# renaming/string issue in one particular case

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-string-issue-in-one-particular-case/2870
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 8, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-string-issue-in-one-particular-case/2870 "2006-02-08T02:15:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![ksn](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/dec6dc/32.png) [@ksn](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ksn)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-string-issue-in-one-particular-case/2870/1 "2006-02-08T02:15:44Z")

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hi everyone -

(first off, BRILLIANT program, this makes my life a lot easier. it's obvious how much time you've spent on the app, and it shows. apologies in advance if the answer is in the forums somewhere. i looked (i swear), but i'm pretty clueless about computers, so probably missed it.)

here's my issue. i have a bunch of mp3s without smarttags that have the following naming convention -

Artist - AlbumTitle Track# - Track  
John Coltrane - Blue Train 01 - Blue Train

I'd like to do a filename to tag conversion. Looking at the string option

%artist% - %album% - %track% - %title%

I removed the third "-", because my file name doesn't have one between album title and track#.

So now it looked like this -

%artist% - %album% - %track% - %title%

It works great, but only for albums that have a one word title. For that Coltrane file, for example, i kept getting results like this

Artist - John Coltrane  
Album - Blue  
Track - Train 01  
Title - Blue Train

Any ideas on how i can fix that? any help would be greatly appreciated. And if it's easier, replies in German are völlig in ordnung 🙂

Cheers,  
K

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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: [February 8, 2006, 10:10am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-string-issue-in-one-particular-case/2870/2 "2006-02-08T10:10:09Z")

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The problem is, that Mp3tag looks for the first blank after matching %album% and treats this as seperator.

You can rename your files to have a proper seperator like - between %album% and %track% using this [action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1):

Action #1:  
_Action type:_ **Replace with regular expressions**  
_Field:_ **\_FILENAME**  
_Regular expression:_ **(._) - (._) (\d\*) - (.\*)**  
_Replace matches with:_ **$1 - $2 - $3 - $4**

[] case-sensitive comparison

Hope that helps.

Best regards,  
~ Florian

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### Author: ![ksn](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/dec6dc/32.png) [@ksn](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ksn)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-string-issue-in-one-particular-case/2870/3 "2006-02-08T14:59:34Z")

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Hi Florian,

brilliant, it worked a charm.

thanks for getting back to me so fast, hadn't expected such a quick turn around...

Viele Grüsse aus NY, mach's jut.

Karsten

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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, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-string-issue-in-one-particular-case/2870/4 "2026-02-09T12:19:38Z")

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