# General Discussion **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/c/general/20.md?page=110 [Latest](https://community.mp3tag.de/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.mp3tag.de/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/tags.md) **Page:** 111 --- ## [Audio books](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/audio-books/6417)
**Author:** [@Affe09](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Affe09)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/audio-books/6417 "2008-03-09T21:32:02Z")
I’m using Mp3tag for renaming files ripped from CD containing audio books in order to use them on a mp3 player. I managed to change so that the tags is good for CD nr.1. But I don’t want to write all data again for the f… --- ## [Double Click](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/double-click/6409)
**Author:** [@Jatolo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Jatolo)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 8, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/double-click/6409 "2008-03-08T17:46:41Z")
Hi!!! I got a problem, Why when I double click to listen a song. the player opens for every song I want to play instead stop the old and satr the new one, it just keep playing every song at the same time. I’m using MED… --- ## [Result message to qty of files changed](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/result-message-to-qty-of-files-changed/6407)
**Author:** [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 8, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/result-message-to-qty-of-files-changed/6407 "2008-03-08T17:01:07Z")
It would be good if the file change result messages in the dialog box and the status bar said the quantity of files changed. Currently they don’t necessarily e.g. an action that renames the directory of one file causes … --- ## [What gives......?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-gives/6401)
**Author:** [@petemlopez](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/petemlopez)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2008, 7:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-gives/6401 "2008-03-07T07:25:43Z")
When I am in the Adjust Tag Information screen, I cant seem to move the song name up to the top of the list so it labels my song correctly. I searched the forums and found I need to drag the song name to the top, howeve… --- ## [Cover Dimensions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-dimensions/6397)
**Author:** [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 13, 2022, 7:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-dimensions/6397 "2022-04-13T07:53:42Z")
Cover Dimensions The following method creates two tag fields to hold the wide and height values from the first stored cover. You need a helper tool called IrfanView which extracts the information from the picture. 1. … --- ## [Why aren't 'placeholders' functions instead?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/why-arent-placeholders-functions-instead/6400)
**Author:** [@JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JJ_Johnson)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2008, 6:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/why-arent-placeholders-functions-instead/6400 "2008-03-07T06:21:35Z")
Maybe a dumb question, but: Why are ‘placeholders’ not just functions? In most scripting languages the placeholder variables would be function calls - $file\_size(), $extension(), $bitrate(), for example. This question … --- ## [Multiple tag values](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-tag-values/6390)
**Author:** [@grogi](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/grogi)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-tag-values/6390 "2008-03-06T23:06:08Z")
I would like to propose a few additional features. My experience shows that they are quite easy to implement, but should improve the ease of maintaining a huge audio collection. Entering mulitple tag values Easy way of… --- ## [Tag panel - multiple fields in one line](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-multiple-fields-in-one-line/6391)
**Author:** [@lwiczek](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/lwiczek)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-multiple-fields-in-one-line/6391 "2008-03-06T22:38:20Z")
Hi, would it be possible to change arrangement of tag panel to put several fields in one line - e.g. artist, title and album in one line like year, track and genre (preferably fully customizable which field where). It w… --- ## [Cyrillic to Latin conversion](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cyrillic-to-latin-conversion/5157)
**Author:** [@severov](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/severov)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cyrillic-to-latin-conversion/5157 "2008-03-06T16:55:56Z")
Thanks Florian for the great program! My small contribution to community (attached) - this is little archive of Mp3Tag action files for converting all Cyrillic characters into Latin everywhere in mp3s (including filena… --- ## [moving whole folders](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-whole-folders/6377)
**Author:** [@zzzed36](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/zzzed36)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 5, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-whole-folders/6377 "2008-03-05T21:36:13Z")
right now i have a situation where there are a bunch of drives with music that i want to consolidate to one single drive lets say the main consolidating drive is A, and the others are B, C, D i open up mp3tag to read d… --- ## [Forced to upgrade?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/forced-to-upgrade/6372)
**Author:** [@samr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/samr)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2008, 8:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/forced-to-upgrade/6372 "2008-03-04T08:05:11Z")
Today I go to use MP3Tag (ver 2.39) and a dialog box comes up saying "This version of MP3Tag was released some time ago … Do you want to download the new version?" If I say NO it STILL asks me next time I use it and t… --- ## [Getting the total number of tracks in TRACK](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getting-the-total-number-of-tracks-in-track/6362)
**Author:** [@Aythamie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Aythamie)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/getting-the-total-number-of-tracks-in-track/6362 "2008-03-02T15:08:35Z")
Hi, First of all thanks for this wonderful program. I’ve looked for it in the FAQ, in Help and on the forums but still no luck so i decided to post something. I like having the tracks sorted like this: 1/10, 2/10, 3/1… --- ## [New Web Sources Panel](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/new-web-sources-panel/6231)
**Author:** [@studley](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/studley)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2008, 11:11am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/new-web-sources-panel/6231 "2008-03-01T11:11:55Z")
I like the new design of the Web Sources Panel. My personal preference would be to have the Util options on the same panel, however. I’m especially interested in seeing the Album Cover options available and I miss the … --- ## [Suggestion: Need in ID3v2 tags for FLAC files](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-need-in-id3v2-tags-for-flac-files/6352)
**Author:** [@gr3y](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gr3y)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 29, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-need-in-id3v2-tags-for-flac-files/6352 "2008-02-29T19:47:53Z")
Many LYRICS plugins for Winamp reading ONLY ID3v2 lyrics tags from files. So here is VERY IMPORTANT to include “SAVE ID3v2 TAGS” option for FLAC, APE, etc files. Is it possible? --- ## [What do you use to name multi-disc box sets that...](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-do-you-use-to-name-multi-disc-box-sets-that/6354)
**Author:** [@Marcabove](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Marcabove)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 29, 2008, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-do-you-use-to-name-multi-disc-box-sets-that/6354 "2008-02-29T15:55:02Z")
have names for the discs. I use 3-digit track numbers to number “regular” box sets but here are some sets that say disc 1 - the disc is named the “Wonder Years 58-62”, disc 2 is named something else. I’ve been using “A… --- ## [No covers displayed](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/no-covers-displayed/6347)
**Author:** [@blackspawn](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/blackspawn)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/no-covers-displayed/6347 "2008-02-28T23:01:16Z")
Hi, I recently updated mp3tag from 2.38 to the latest version 2.40. Thing is now none of my covers are displayed on the side panel when I select a song. I have all my albums with the following structure: Artist\\Album (Ye… --- ## [Suggestion: Filename - Tag dialog](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-filename-tag-dialog/6345)
**Author:** [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2008, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-filename-tag-dialog/6345 "2008-02-28T14:28:29Z")
The Filename - Tag dialog displays a sample source filename but it would be good it to include also some path e.g. the path segment specified by the format string. And also good would be for this item to be not next to t… --- ## [Suggestion: Action Export to be alowed as first in group](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-action-export-to-be-alowed-as-first-in-group/6286)
**Author:** [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-action-export-to-be-alowed-as-first-in-group/6286 "2008-02-26T20:53:33Z")
It would be good if Action Export was allowed to be first in the action group. Currently you can put it first, but it gets executed last. If Mp3tag would it execute it first as requested, it would be really useful since … --- ## [\[Request\] Just a few items](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-just-a-few-items/4492)
**Author:** [@velkymx](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/velkymx)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-just-a-few-items/4492 "2008-02-26T16:24:25Z")
Let me start off by saying how much I love your program. It’s simple, straight forward and works very well. :wink: I have a few suggestions: When renaming many files, add a check box for remembering what I selected.… --- ## [SUGGESTION: Profiled Web Source Options](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-profiled-web-source-options/6326)
**Author:** [@sigloiv](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sigloiv)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2008, 3:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-profiled-web-source-options/6326 "2008-02-26T03:49:25Z")
I just downloaded the new Mp3tag v2.40, and I have to say I love it. Just the few things that immediately popped out at me (like the readability of the Extended Tags and Web Source dialogs) are fantastic changes for the … --- ## [Suggestion: Cover Context Menu in Extended Tags Dialog.](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-cover-context-menu-in-extended-tags-dialog/6328)
**Author:** [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2008, 7:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-cover-context-menu-in-extended-tags-dialog/6328 "2008-02-25T07:25:06Z")
In Mp3tag 2.40 there is no ‘cover context menu’ in Alt-T Extended Tags Dialog. I would like to have there the same ‘cover context menu’ too as in Tag-Panel view. Example (german language) Cover hinzufügen… Cover entf… --- ## [Feature Request (File Renaming)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-file-renaming/6315)
**Author:** [@Rusherman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Rusherman)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2008, 8:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-file-renaming/6315 "2008-02-24T08:00:58Z")
This might be a little far out for an Mp3 tagger program but give it a chance. I have thousands of files to clean up and rename on occasion. Mp3tag has the best scripting of any file renamer I have found. Some look prett… --- ## [Suggestion: $translate function](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-translate-function/6313)
**Author:** [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-translate-function/6313 "2008-02-21T17:46:43Z")
It would be great to have a scripting function to help in converting alphabets for e.g. http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?showtopic=7194 and my previous queries likewise. e.g. Command: $translate(string,from,to) Resul… --- ## [convert NAME (extended tag) to title?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-name-extended-tag-to-title/6311)
**Author:** [@barret77](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/barret77)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-name-extended-tag-to-title/6311 "2008-02-21T16:09:47Z")
Hello all I have a bunch of files in APE v2 (ID3v1 ID3v2.3 APEv2) format. The track titles are not in the common “title” field, but in an extended tag called NAME Is there a way to create an action that converts all N… --- ## [Suggestion: non-regexp Filter](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-non-regexp-filter/6304)
**Author:** [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 20, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-non-regexp-filter/6304 "2008-02-20T19:20:29Z")
Could we have a checkbox on the Filter bar: \[ \] Regexp Because I would really like to be able to turn off the regexp i.e. have the filter interpret my input as a literal string. This is because it is a PITA to have to m… --- ## [an automated genre tagging?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/an-automated-genre-tagging/6301)
**Author:** [@barret77](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/barret77)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 20, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/an-automated-genre-tagging/6301 "2008-02-20T14:21:13Z")
Hello all I’m new here, and to mp3tag, It’s a great app. I’m looking for a way to automatically tag the genre of my tracks. All the basic fields are filled - album, track, artist. I’ve used amazon service for most of … --- ## [The first selected file?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/the-first-selected-file/6282)
**Author:** [@lindoro](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/lindoro)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/the-first-selected-file/6282 "2008-02-18T18:28:18Z")
Hello I’d like a feature (which I believe is not present) allowing the referral to the tags of the first file in the selection. The reason is that often the tags for classical music are written in this way: Liszt: Bee… --- ## [Suugestion for Help: $mid($mid(x,n)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suugestion-for-help-mid-mid-x-n/6288)
**Author:** [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suugestion-for-help-mid-mid-x-n/6288 "2008-02-18T18:16:43Z")
I suggest adding to Help: $mid(x,n) nth character of text x for not only people looking for this function, but also for those who might think it does “characters from position n to end of text x” as in BASIC etc. --- ## [maintain playlist after file rename/move](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/maintain-playlist-after-file-rename-move/6247)
**Author:** [@bucky](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bucky)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/maintain-playlist-after-file-rename-move/6247 "2008-02-18T17:05:45Z")
Here’s a common situation for me: I often rename an mp3 file or re-arrange the folder structure, which breaks my playlists, since the playlist would be referencing an invalid file. For example, I have a file called “U2 … --- ## [Suggestion: correct File|Export|'Export file name'...](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-correct-file-export-export-file-name/6284)
**Author:** [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-correct-file-export-export-file-name/6284 "2008-02-18T16:12:21Z")
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