# Track Number Format...

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-number-format/10126
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 17, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-number-format/10126 "2010-03-17T19:48:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![NeiJiaTea](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@NeiJiaTea](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/NeiJiaTea)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-number-format/10126/1 "2010-03-17T19:48:26Z")

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Hey all, I'm new to using Mp3tag. I have been in the habit of using the following format of file name for my mp3 collection:

artist - album [track#] - title

My problem is this: I can't figure out how to surround the track title in brackets. Is there a way, or will it always just break the syntax? I only want brackets in the filename, not in the tag.

Thanks for any help!

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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2010, 9:12am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-number-format/10126/2 "2010-03-18T09:12:30Z")

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> [@NeiJiaTea](#):
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> artist - album [track#] - title

have you used the function tag- filename?  
In this wizard enter a mask that looks like this:

%artist% - %album% '['%track%']' - %title%

btw: If you want to use the filename as a storage for your tags it would be easier to retrieve that information if you didn't use the hyphen as field separator as this is very often part of a title or album name.  
I use the underscore \_ instead - looks almost the same and is hardly ever used in strings.

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### Author: ![NeiJiaTea](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@NeiJiaTea](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/NeiJiaTea)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-number-format/10126/3 "2010-03-19T01:19:22Z")

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Thank you! I was trying to use the tag-filename function, but didn't realize that I needed the apostrophes to make it work.  
Thanks also for the hint about the hyphen.

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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, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-number-format/10126/4 "2026-02-09T12:22:15Z")

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