<info> <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name> kittykat3756@googlemail.com <desc>What is a format-specifier and which ones can I use?</desc> </info>

Format specifiers can be used to split a file name into tags and to name a file or playlist based on existing tags using the scanner.

Format specifier | Corresponding tag field
%a | Artist: this is the artist or artists who created the track, this field may contact a featured artist as well as the album artist
%z | Album artist
%b | Album title
%c | Comment: this is the free-form comment field
%p | Composer: this is the creator of the track
%r | Copyright holder: this is usually the artist, but it can also be the record label
%d | Disc number
%e | Encoded by: this is usually the person who encoded the file, but the field is also used for the application that was used to encode the file
%g | Genre
%i | Ignored: this format specifier can only be used in <gui>Fill Tag</gui> to specify parts of the file name which should be ignored
%l | Number of tracks: the total number of tracks on the medium
%o | Original artist
%n | Track number
%t | Track title
%u | URL
%x | Number of discs
%y | Year of recording, sometimes the date of release is used instead