# Show filename in Tag Panel
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/show-filename-in-tag-panel/46491
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 21, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/show-filename-in-tag-panel/46491 "2019-09-21T19:10:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Watt](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Watt)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/show-filename-in-tag-panel/46491/1 "2019-09-21T19:10:55Z")
How can you get the filename to show in the Tag Panel? I have tried adding it as FILENAME and \_FILENAME in File \> Options \> Tag Panel. A field does show in the Tag Panel, but it is always empty; it doesn't show the actual filename of the selected song.
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### Author:  [@Patch](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Patch)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2019, 10:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/show-filename-in-tag-panel/46491/2 "2019-09-21T22:17:12Z")
FILENAME is a tag. It’s not actually the filename.
You need to create an action to copy the filename to the FILENAME tag.
Then it will show up in the tag panel.
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### Author:  [@Watt](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Watt)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2019, 12:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/show-filename-in-tag-panel/46491/3 "2019-09-22T00:18:26Z")
Assuming I figure out how to do that, will making changes in my "filename" field in the Tag Panel change the actual filename, like you can do in a Filename column?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2019, 6:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/show-filename-in-tag-panel/46491/4 "2019-09-22T06:38:21Z")
The tag panel will not show any properties that are not tag fields.
As a rule of thumb, these are all properties that start with an underscore like %\_length%, %\_cover\_width% etc.
If you add a user-defined field, then you as the user have to maintain it.
BTW: AFAI understood the purpose of the tag panel, it eases the way to add the same data for several files.
The same filename for several files is invalid.
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### Author:  [@Patch](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Patch)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2019, 9:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/show-filename-in-tag-panel/46491/5 "2019-09-22T09:39:30Z")
> [@](#):
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> ...will making changes in my "filename" field in the Tag Panel change the actual filename, like you can do in a Filename column?
No.
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### Author:  [@Watt](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Watt)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/show-filename-in-tag-panel/46491/6 "2019-09-22T17:04:36Z")
> AFAI understood the purpose of the tag panel, it eases the way to add the same data for several files. The same filename for several files is invalid.
Yeah, that's a good point. Thanks to both responders. I will stick to adjusting filenames in the main track list.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2019, 5:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/show-filename-in-tag-panel/46491/7 "2019-09-22T17:08:04Z")
> [@Watt](#):
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> I will stick to adjusting filenames in the main track list.
What about using the converters Tag-Filename and Filename-Filename? This might lead to a uniform pattern.
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2019, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/show-filename-in-tag-panel/46491/8 "2019-10-04T16:17:57Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> [...]
> BTW: AFAI understood the purpose of the tag panel, it eases the way to add the same data for several files.
> The same filename for several files is invalid.
> [@Watt](#):
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> Yeah, that's a good point. Thanks to both responders. I will stick to adjusting filenames in the main track list.
There are invalid only if there are in the same folder
I have multiple cases of files with the exact FILENAME- but each in a folder of a different artist. Am I the only one? I think not- just think of all the cover versions of the songs you like
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Thence: an option to be able to put FILENAME into the tag Panel could be beneficial to some users
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2019, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/show-filename-in-tag-panel/46491/9 "2019-10-04T16:34:21Z")
> [@Zerow](#):
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> There are invalid only if there are in the same folder
> [...]
> Thence: an option to be able to put FILENAME into the tag Panel could be beneficial to some users
Therefore I have just made an adequate request
> [@SUGGESTION: Make possible to use FILENAME as a "tag' field in the Tag Panel](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-make-possible-to-use-filename-as-a-tag-field-in-the-tag-panel/46639):
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> This comes out from me pointing out the obvious aspect in this discussion: I see no reason whey the users should be allowed to edit \_FILENAME in the Tag Panel. \_FILENAME\_EXT- now that would be a different story, because changing file formats in Mp3tag would mess up the usage of the files. But a mere \_FILENAME? All bad that can happen is this: the user gets the pop up windows informing that for example File "C:\Music\Hans Zimmer\Inception Opening Titles.mp3" cannot be renamed to ``File "C:…
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/show-filename-in-tag-panel/46491/10 "2026-02-09T12:28:16Z")