# Unsupported filename characters
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unsupported-filename-characters/5180
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 22, 2007, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unsupported-filename-characters/5180 "2007-07-22T17:48:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@ChrisWad](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ChrisWad)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2007, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unsupported-filename-characters/5180/1 "2007-07-22T17:48:59Z")
First let me apologies if this has been covered before, but i did a quick search of the forums and couldn’t find the answer to my question. I have an a load of album with “:” in the title. When I ask Mp3tag to replace the filename with “%artist% - %album% - %title%” is simply removes the “:” from the filename as Windows XP doesn’t support this character. What I would like Mp3tag to do is replace “:” with “;”. For example:
Album Title
Young Lust: The Aerosmith Anthology
What I want the file name to be:
Aerosmith - Young Lust; The Aerosmith Anthology - Ain't Enough.mp3
File Name before Mp3tag rename:
Aerosmith - Young Lust The Aerosmith Anthology - Ain't Enough.mp3
Is there any way to get Mp3tag to do this?
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unsupported-filename-characters/5180/2 "2007-07-22T18:00:57Z")
$replace(%artist% - %album% - %title%,:,😉
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### Author:  [@ChrisWad](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ChrisWad)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2007, 6:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unsupported-filename-characters/5180/3 "2007-07-22T18:26:37Z")
Thanks Dano. Worked perfectly 😃
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unsupported-filename-characters/5180/4 "2026-02-09T12:20:25Z")