# Request for %oldfilename% tag
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-for-oldfilename-tag/822
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [February 17, 2004, 6:10am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-for-oldfilename-tag/822 "2004-02-17T06:10:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Galahad](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Galahad)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2004, 6:10am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-for-oldfilename-tag/822/1 "2004-02-17T06:10:03Z")
Hi! What a great program! I recently discoveret it, and am very happy with it as for now. It's easy of use, nice layout, stability and power, in such a nifty package is very appealing. I have been using Branding's MP3Tag Studio which is very good and covers what I want, and also MP3Book Helper, which is very powerful, but has a very clumy and messy interface. I would choose MP3Tag anytime.
However, there's one feature that I can't find in MP3Tag, which is quite necessary. In the Tag - Filename section, I would like to have a placeholder called %oldfilename%. The use for this would be as follows: A directory with a lot of mp3s would then be sorted to for example %artist% - %album%\%oldfilename% (because sometimes you want to keep the old filename as the id3 tags are not complete).
I'm using 2.17.
Thanks for a great program!
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2004, 10:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-for-oldfilename-tag/822/2 "2004-02-17T10:50:02Z")
Hi Galahad,
I'm glad that you like Mp3tag! Thanks for the nice feedback 🙂
Regarding your suggestion: **%artist% - %album%\%\_filename%** is what you're looking for.
Best regards,
~ Florian
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2022, 2:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-for-oldfilename-tag/822/3 "2022-04-13T14:48:16Z")
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