# \[WS\] Discogs (pone mod)

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-pone-mod/9226>\
**Category:** Broken Web Sources\
**Created:** [October 29, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-pone-mod/9226 "2009-10-29T03:18:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/pone/32/272_2.png) [@pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pone)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 1:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-pone-mod/9226/200 "2011-10-14T13:36:49Z")

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> [@kexik](#):
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> Is there a way to replace certain characters (e.g. / or ) by other characters during the import. Those characters are not allowed in the renaming and creation process in tags used for the renaming (like album artist, album, title,...)

All character are allowed for renaming tag-fields (like album artist, album, title,...) in Mp3tag.  
If you want to rename filenames, use the **$validate(filename,to)** scripting function.

Example: $validate(%artist% - %album% - %track% - %title%,',')  
This example replaces all invalid characters (/?\*"\<\>|:) to commas like you want it.  
why commas? wouldn't an underscore look somewhat better: $validate(%artist% - %album% - %track% - %title%,\_)

Building that option into the web sources script would be possible, but I think it's not worth the work. I would have to change quite a lot for that. And the next question would be, disable those characters for all tag fields or only for some? If only for some, for what fields? So finally I would have to make an option for every tag field to diable those characters.

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