# Why is MP3 Tag Replacing Chars

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/why-is-mp3-tag-replacing-chars/59808
**Category:** Mac
**Created:** [January 26, 2023, 6:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/why-is-mp3-tag-replacing-chars/59808 "2023-01-26T18:44:31Z")
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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/why-is-mp3-tag-replacing-chars/59808/8 "2023-01-26T20:10:35Z")

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It's a thing specific to macOS and Finder. The filenames actually use the colon character `:` (as displayed correctly in Mp3tag) but Finder does some auto-translation into the forward slash `/`.

You can verify that yourself by opening Terminal.app, navigate to the Disc 5 folder, and use the command `ls -la` to list the folder contents.

More on that here:

> <https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/425168/stop-finder-replacing-colons-with-slashes-in-filenames>

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13298434/colon-appears-as-forward-slash-when-creating-file-name/13298479#13298479>

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