# Asciify id3 tags

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/asciify-id3-tags/1242>\
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**Created:** [May 1, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/asciify-id3-tags/1242 "2020-05-01T19:48:50Z")\
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We unfortunately don’t have a great way to do this currently. This old feature request describes the functionality we’d need:

> <https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/488#issuecomment-73104535>
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> There are a number of cool things we could do if the \`modify\` command supported …templates in the value part. For example, you could put the Echo Nest liveness into the comments field like so:
> 
> \`\`\`
> $ beet mod comments='liveness: $liveness'
> \`\`\`
> 
> It might also be nice to expose these rewritings in an import hook also.

See also:

> [@Do Templates Such as "%title" Also Change Metadata / Tags, or Just file and Directory Names?](https://discourse.beets.io/t/do-templates-such-as-title-also-change-metadata-tags-or-just-file-and-directory-names/1150/3):
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> Any way to make it work on metadata / tags? Can tags be ASCII-fied too, or just file and folder names? What’s the backend of %title? How does it determine what gets uppercased? This information is missing from the docs. Users should be aware of beet's weakneses, so as to not develop interest in the wrong solution. slightly_smiling_face

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