# General Discussion **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/c/general/20.md?page=115 [Latest](https://community.mp3tag.de/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.mp3tag.de/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/tags.md) **Page:** 116 --- ## [What is the \*best\* tag for .flac file?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-is-the-best-tag-for-flac-file/5432)
**Author:** [@trainwreck](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/trainwreck)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-is-the-best-tag-for-flac-file/5432 "2007-09-12T20:05:34Z")
I’ve been trying to research the different tag types that support .flac files now that I’ve ripped my 5000 track library to .flac format. My current tag type appears to be FLAC but was wondering about switching to the A… --- ## [folder.jpg setting request](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/folder-jpg-setting-request/5422)
**Author:** [@igorshergin](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/igorshergin)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/folder-jpg-setting-request/5422 "2007-09-10T16:19:07Z")
Hi, I donated $10 and so have a little feature request. :slight\_smile: When I apply tags (Tag Sources / discogs-bla-bla, etc.), it opens a dialog window with tags review and save button for the cover. When I press it to… --- ## [Better album art support](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/better-album-art-support/5285)
**Author:** [@Aelux](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Aelux)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2007, 5:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/better-album-art-support/5285 "2007-09-10T05:53:47Z")
When adding album art from a source, I would like to see an append option, which appends the art instead of replacing already existing art. --- ## [File Loading Delay When Loading Multiple Files from Shell Extension](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/file-loading-delay-when-loading-multiple-files-from-shell-extension/5418)
**Author:** [@louie55](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/louie55)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/file-loading-delay-when-loading-multiple-files-from-shell-extension/5418 "2007-09-08T22:38:05Z")
I don’t know if this could really be called a “bug”. More of an annoyance. Operating System: Windows XP Professional (SP2) MP3Tag Version: 2.39 (Also happened on 2.38) Problem: If you select multiple mp3 files in Wind… --- ## [Am I missing soemthing with album art?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/am-i-missing-soemthing-with-album-art/5410)
**Author:** [@Marcabove](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Marcabove)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 7, 2007, 1:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/am-i-missing-soemthing-with-album-art/5410 "2007-09-07T13:33:27Z")
In the older version when you searched for tag info it also pulled up a jpeg of the CD that you could save. I just upgraded and I can’t find where you can download the jpg. Have I missed a setting? Thanks, Marc --- ## [mp3tag in portable ??](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-in-portable/5266)
**Author:** [@offik](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/offik)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2007, 5:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-in-portable/5266 "2007-09-01T05:15:14Z")
i’d like to have mp3tag in portable version does anyone have it ??? --- ## [New suggestion](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/new-suggestion/5376)
**Author:** [@cyreli](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cyreli)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2007, 3:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/new-suggestion/5376 "2007-08-30T15:48:48Z")
Hi, First of all, great great job, your software is maybe the top of top I ever used. Anyway because the world is not perfect, and the universe against us :wink: Here are a list of suggestions Add a swap tag functio… --- ## [Is It Possible to Find Out the Year A Song Came Out With An Application??](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-it-possible-to-find-out-the-year-a-song-came-out-with-an-application/5366)
**Author:** [@fcastro](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fcastro)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2007, 3:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-it-possible-to-find-out-the-year-a-song-came-out-with-an-application/5366 "2007-08-29T03:05:16Z")
Hi all, Ok I have been thinking about this and still haven’t found an application that is smart enough to find the year an mp3 track was made. Wondering if anyone out there know of an application that would read the id… --- ## [Feature: A way to improve readability of long strings in the file list](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-a-way-to-improve-readability-of-long-strings-in-the-file-list/5363)
**Author:** [@Cookie\_Monster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Cookie_Monster)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-a-way-to-improve-readability-of-long-strings-in-the-file-list/5363 "2007-08-28T20:03:35Z")
I use one column to show me the complete path of the files using “%\_folderpath%%\_filename\_ext%”. I need this column in the list for sorting and also so I don’t loose the orientation in a long list of files. But unfortun… --- ## [How do you do convert from one tag to another?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-you-do-convert-from-one-tag-to-another/5362)
**Author:** [@Cookie\_Monster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Cookie_Monster)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-you-do-convert-from-one-tag-to-another/5362 "2007-08-28T19:40:52Z")
I generally came into doubt that my methods for handling MP3s and using Mp3Tag in general are the most optimal. Therefore I want to know what others think about how I convert from one tag to another as one example: Con… --- ## [New tags and options for padding](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/new-tags-and-options-for-padding/5309)
**Author:** [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2007, 4:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/new-tags-and-options-for-padding/5309 "2007-08-27T16:10:55Z")
Hello everyone, I recently switched to mp3tag and I’m starting to love it. It’s very good and have some really nice features. I like the foobar-ish scripting. It makes copying info from a web site very easy. However, t… --- ## [FLAC(FLAC ID3V2)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/flac-flac-id3v2/5350)
**Author:** [@Rarotonga](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Rarotonga)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2007, 8:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/flac-flac-id3v2/5350 "2007-08-26T08:25:32Z")
(Florian, congrats for the best tag editor I’ve seen). Some of my files are tagged "FLAC(FLAC ID3V2)" Is it confusing ? Which one is the best : FLAC or ID3V2 ? I guess I could suppress the unusefull one. I use custo… --- ## [Can I create an action that takes input from the user?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-i-create-an-action-that-takes-input-from-the-user/5345)
**Author:** [@chuck](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chuck)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2007, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-i-create-an-action-that-takes-input-from-the-user/5345 "2007-08-24T12:25:56Z")
I want to write a simple action that simply appends some text to an ID3 tag. I would like to be able to have this action query me for the string to append as opposed to having to modify the action every time I want to c… --- ## [Improvement suggestion: optimization for large # of files](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/improvement-suggestion-optimization-for-large-of-files/5166)
**Author:** [@thzxcyl](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/thzxcyl)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/improvement-suggestion-optimization-for-large-of-files/5166 "2007-08-23T19:19:37Z")
Mp3tag is wonderful for small / medium number of files, but on the magnitude of thousands, Mp3tag becomes rather unwieldy. Sometimes I want to do a batch action for all my files (\>10000 tracks), say, backing up one field… --- ## [Suggestion: better METADATA\_BLOCK\_PICTURE support](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-better-metadata-block-picture-support/5339)
**Author:** [@Cookie\_Monster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Cookie_Monster)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2007, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-better-metadata-block-picture-support/5339 "2007-08-22T12:33:59Z")
Mp3Tag supports only “Cover (front)” as the picture type and no description of the picture. It would be nice to have full compatible support for embedded FLAC pictures, i.e. a drop-down list for the picture type and a te… --- ## [copy cells from MP3tag, paste into spreadsheet](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-cells-from-mp3tag-paste-into-spreadsheet/5289)
**Author:** [@olk](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/olk)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2007, 11:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-cells-from-mp3tag-paste-into-spreadsheet/5289 "2007-08-22T11:14:50Z")
It surprises me, that I can’t just Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C from MP3tag, and then Ctrl-C into a spreadsheet. WYSIWYG may be an old buzz-word, but it still holds true as one of the best ways to assist users to get what they expect… --- ## [Suggestion: Feature to add the final 2 subdirectories to IDTAGs](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-feature-to-add-the-final-2-subdirectories-to-idtags/5313)
**Author:** [@Da\_maniaC](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Da_maniaC)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-feature-to-add-the-final-2-subdirectories-to-idtags/5313 "2007-08-20T21:56:55Z")
Hello there, Let me start off by saying how much i like this program! It works great and has helped me through a lot of nasty renaming issues. I have a feature i would like to suggest though. It would be really nice i… --- ## [Suggestion: Changing the working directory...](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-changing-the-working-directory/5224)
**Author:** [@azfrankie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/azfrankie)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 17, 2007, 9:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-changing-the-working-directory/5224 "2007-08-17T09:35:07Z")
Hi Florian and all other readers of this forum, I love Mp3tag! At first, many thanks for the awesome hard work you’re doing. It’s definitely the best mp3 tagger around… I live in Berlin (therefore not too far away from … --- ## [Give to MP3TAG Capabilities for read .KAR or .MID](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/give-to-mp3tag-capabilities-for-read-kar-or-mid/5307)
**Author:** [@Huallacan](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Huallacan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 16, 2007, 1:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/give-to-mp3tag-capabilities-for-read-kar-or-mid/5307 "2007-08-16T01:45:01Z")
:smiley: Dear friends. Im Very Happy wit MP3TAG. Is de Best MP3 tool of the World. But. I Think that MP3TAG will be PERFECT when I´ll can organize and rename my KAR & MID Files, so easyly than my MP3 collection. Best… --- ## [This is a great Tag Editor, Thak you.](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/this-is-a-great-tag-editor-thak-you/5207)
**Author:** [@shushik](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/shushik)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2007, 5:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/this-is-a-great-tag-editor-thak-you/5207 "2007-08-13T05:46:13Z")
I just found about this “Mp3tag” two days ago and it suck me into it. My media directory realy needed this care and I couldn’t do it unless this great Editor. So thank you Florian and who ever else help in developing a… --- ## [Encoder Version/Brand](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/encoder-version-brand/4146)
**Author:** [@paulskinner](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/paulskinner)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2007, 8:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/encoder-version-brand/4146 "2007-08-11T20:06:26Z")
I would love to have a field that knows what version of encoder was used to create a file. It would of course be un-editable. Some examples: Lame 3.97, FHG, Xing, Lame 3.92 MediaTagger has it, but unfortunately that c… --- ## [Feature: Unicode column](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-unicode-column/5282)
**Author:** [@Gemini\_II](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Gemini_II)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2007, 11:16am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-unicode-column/5282 "2007-08-11T11:16:56Z")
Hello, My car radio doesn’t support Unicode-tags. It would be very helpful if Mp3Tags would have a sortable column that showed if a MP3 \\ wma had any tags with Unicode. With this it would be easy to select them and sa… --- ## [export what you see](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-what-you-see/5290)
**Author:** [@olk](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/olk)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2007, 8:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-what-you-see/5290 "2007-08-10T08:39:31Z")
It would be nice, if MP3tag could automatically generate an on-the-fly export format (either csv and/or html-style) that contains the columns that are currently displayed by MP3tag. CSV files would have column headers, … --- ## [performance: export from network shared drive](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/performance-export-from-network-shared-drive/5288)
**Author:** [@olk](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/olk)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2007, 8:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/performance-export-from-network-shared-drive/5288 "2007-08-10T08:15:45Z")
I wish MP3tag export would not re-read my MP3 files, when all required export fields are already displayed as columns on screen. that would improve export performance in general it would improve export performance for … --- ## [Multiple fields processing](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-fields-processing/5280)
**Author:** [@peclik](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/peclik)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-fields-processing/5280 "2007-08-09T15:51:33Z")
Hello. I’ve been using mp3tag for long period. It is very powerful tagger. Thanks for your very good job, Florian. I’m going to use ID3V2.4 tags with multiple fields for my mp3 collection. But mp3tag lacks some support… --- ## [Lyrics in MP3Tag?!](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/lyrics-in-mp3tag/5279)
**Author:** [@markokrajnik](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/markokrajnik)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 8, 2007, 9:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/lyrics-in-mp3tag/5279 "2007-08-08T09:30:03Z")
Hello! I’m new in your forum, but I have used MP3Tag for a couple of years. And I must commend you that you are doing a very good job - I’ve tried several programs for tag editing during the years and MP3Tag Editor is b… --- ## [Auto-cover art suggestion](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-cover-art-suggestion/5278)
**Author:** [@jhoff80](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jhoff80)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 7, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-cover-art-suggestion/5278 "2007-08-07T20:55:54Z")
I would love if there was some semi-automated cover art option, where for each album it would automatically select all the tracks in that album (if already tagged correctly, that is) search for that album on Amazon, and … --- ## [removing the Lyrics3 tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-the-lyrics3-tag/5272)
**Author:** [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 7, 2007, 4:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-the-lyrics3-tag/5272 "2007-08-07T16:54:37Z")
Hello, would it be possible to implement the feature to remove just the Lyrics3v2 tag while keeping the ID3v1 one? Right now I have to manually copy the info to an ID3v2 tag (if it’s not there yet), remove the Lyrics t… --- ## [Request - Filter keypress delay](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-filter-keypress-delay/5273)
**Author:** [@Oblio](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Oblio)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 7, 2007, 2:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-filter-keypress-delay/5273 "2007-08-07T02:22:27Z")
Would it be possible to add a keypress delay on the filter box so it waits until you finish typing the filter? Or maybe an option to filter on press of Enter key instead of immediately on every key stroke? Its just tha… --- ## [freedb abfrage](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freedb-abfrage/5262)
**Author:** [@Daglausch](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Daglausch)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 5, 2007, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freedb-abfrage/5262 "2007-08-05T16:46:07Z")
hi an alle ich hätte mal ne frage, (hab ne stunde im forum gesucht;-)) wenn ich über die freedbabfrage zugreife und einen Sampler einlese. benennt mir mp3tag die Titelinformation Titel \> “Interpret / Titel” und Interp… [Previous page](https://community.mp3tag.de/c/general/20.md?page=114) [Next page](https://community.mp3tag.de/c/general/20.md?page=116)