Create a TXT file with the numbers you want up to 99 like this:


Alternatively, if you wanted to add the track number to the beginning of your title (that is, change from "SongName" to "08 Songname" for example) There is an easy way to do this in MP3TS. (Assuming, of course, that your tags already have the Track Number field properly filled out.)

Select the "Direct Tag Manipulation" tab in MP3TS. On the right side of the screen there are two columns containing 7 data entry boxes each; all you need is the pair on top.

Put <TrackNr> <Title> in the left hand box; put <Title> in the right hand box. Put a check into the "Include Subdirectories" box if you want to do it all at once, and click on the "Execute" button -- and you're done. It should take only a few minutes on a reasonably fast computer to change 13,000 tags that way.

This is a very powerful tool. In addition to combining whatever tag information already exists into whatever fields you like, you can also add your own text strings. So you could put <TrackNr> textstring <Title> and get an output that looked like "08 textstring SongName" for your new song title.


Before doing this, I would recommend that in MP3TS you choose "File...Settings...General Tagging & Renaming..." and look at the very bottom check box, where it allows you to "Zero-Pad Track Numbers to Length 'n', where n can be anything from 1 to 9. Two is probably sufficient for most usages, although I have seen audiobooks ("Clan of the Cave Bear" by Jean Auel) that required four. The reason you want your track numbers zero-filled (that's with leading zeroes) is for alphabetizing. Otherwise your tracks (if you sort by title) will alphabetize 1, 10, 11, 12, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 which is less than optimal.

Note that the zero-padding your tracks only works if you have ID3V2 tags enabled.

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