# zero-padding track no.

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/zero-padding-track-no/1816
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 28, 2005, 1:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/zero-padding-track-no/1816 "2005-03-28T01:19:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![kasutaja](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/5fc32e/32.png) [@kasutaja](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kasutaja)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2005, 1:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/zero-padding-track-no/1816/1 "2005-03-28T01:19:14Z")

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Hi can anyone suggest a way (regex?) to zero-pad track numbers: 01 etc.

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### Author: ![Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sebastian_mares/32/9285_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2005, 6:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/zero-padding-track-no/1816/2 "2005-03-28T06:00:59Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Hi can anyone suggest a way (regex?) to zero-pad track numbers: 01 etc.
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> \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>

Create a new "Format values" action and apply "$num(%track%,2)" on the "TRACK" field. 🙂

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### Author: ![kasutaja](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/5fc32e/32.png) [@kasutaja](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kasutaja)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2005, 6:13am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/zero-padding-track-no/1816/3 "2005-03-28T06:13:16Z")

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and it works!

thanks

(sorry for teh n00b question)

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### Author: ![zambaretzu](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/df788c/32.png) [@zambaretzu](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/zambaretzu)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/zero-padding-track-no/1816/4 "2005-05-11T00:25:23Z")

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Any way to tailor this to the total number of tracks in the album? (ie, if there are only 8, then don't pad, if there are 12, pad?)

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### Author: ![Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sebastian_mares/32/9285_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/zero-padding-track-no/1816/5 "2005-05-11T03:46:11Z")

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Guess not - do you store the total number of tracks (like 5/12 for example)?

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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, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/zero-padding-track-no/1816/6 "2026-02-09T12:19:21Z")

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