# Is it possible to control how the meta data track number is written?
**URL:** https://discourse.beets.io/t/is-it-possible-to-control-how-the-meta-data-track-number-is-written/1229
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [April 27, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/is-it-possible-to-control-how-the-meta-data-track-number-is-written/1229 "2020-04-27T18:36:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@swills](https://discourse.beets.io/u/swills)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/is-it-possible-to-control-how-the-meta-data-track-number-is-written/1229/1 "2020-04-27T18:36:54Z")
I really like Beets so far. It does exactly what I need, but I have one grip. When the meta data gets written it writes track number like 1//1 by default. I’d rather it just be 1,2,3,4… Is it possible to control this?
**Config:**
```
directory: ~/Media/Music/sorted
library: ~/Media/Music/musiclibrary.db
import:
copy: yes
write: yes
paths:
default: $albumartist/$album - [$year] [$catalognum] [$media-FLAC] [${bitdepth}bit]/$albumartist - $album - $track - $title
plugins: lastgenre
lastgenre:
auto: yes
count: 3
prefer_specific: yes
separator: ','
source: album
```
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### Author:  [@adrian](https://discourse.beets.io/u/adrian)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/is-it-possible-to-control-how-the-meta-data-track-number-is-written/1229/2 "2020-04-27T21:22:25Z")
Hi! Can you explain a little bit more about how you’re viewing the track number? What software are you using to determine that it’s written like “1//1”?
Different tools can represent this information in different ways, and they can sometimes be misleading—even if beets is writing stuff in a straightforward way, other software can display it in a way that makes it look weird.
(This also depends on the file format, FWIW—different kinds of files use different styles for their data.)
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### Author:  [@swills](https://discourse.beets.io/u/swills)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/is-it-possible-to-control-how-the-meta-data-track-number-is-written/1229/3 "2020-04-27T21:23:55Z")
MP3tag. It does it because Music Brainz has the data like 1.1 2.2 3.3 FLAC
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### Author:  [@swills](https://discourse.beets.io/u/swills)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/is-it-possible-to-control-how-the-meta-data-track-number-is-written/1229/4 "2020-04-28T00:03:18Z")
Looks like it as just mp3tag. Looks fine in Foobar.