# Suggestion: tag to filename with /
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-tag-to-filename-with/5514
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [September 29, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-tag-to-filename-with/5514 "2007-09-29T22:31:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Wolf68k](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Wolf68k)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-tag-to-filename-with/5514/1 "2007-09-29T22:31:52Z")
Sorry if this has been asked or suggested before.
Some files I get have a / in the song or album title, I don't think I've ever seen it in the artist name. When I use tag-\>filename it just removes the / completely.
It would be nice if there was something to give the user's a choice on what to replace illegal characters with. But not just a general replacement, well have that as an option as well, but a list of what characters are illegal to have in a Windows file name and the user gets to choose which to replace it with.
I normally replace / for - but if it's a ? then I just leave it off.
I don't run across too many \*, but when I do I again use -
However that's just me, other people have different preferences as to what to replace those characters with.
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2007, 5:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-tag-to-filename-with/5514/2 "2007-10-02T05:58:40Z")
You can use scripting functions like $replace() or $validate().
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### Author:  [@Wolf68k](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Wolf68k)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2007, 4:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-tag-to-filename-with/5514/3 "2007-10-08T04:40:11Z")
Thanks