[X] Problem with leading zeros in the TRACK tag

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@DetlevD

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The problem seems not related to Mp3tag but to other software on the target system.
Numbers resp. number strings (!), which contain only digits from 0 to 7 and begin with 0, are interpreted as octal numbers by the other software.

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do you mean leading blanks or leading zeros?

Are you aware of the Mp3tag scripting functions?
The $num(,) may be of help to format a number as needed.

DD.20120120.0552.CET

Thanks DetLevD.

I did of course mean strip leading zeros. I have now had a look at the scripting functions. Unfortunately, they are not available when converting filenames to tags. However, I have worked out an easy solution to my problem:

My filenames have the format

aaa - bbb .nnn.ccc
where aaa = artist, bbb = album, nnn = track, ccc = title

I was using the transformation
%artist% - %album% .%track%.%title%

This was producing a 3 digit track with leading zeros and Windows explorer was misinterpreting most numbers between 010 to 077 as hex (as you said).

The simple solution was to set up a new transformation for use with numbers 010 to 099.
%artist% - %album% .0%track%.%title%

This transformation generates 2 digit track numbers by ignoring the leading zero and so avoids the problem with Hex numbers (which I have also seen in some Android apps).