# General Discussion **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/c/general/20.md?page=86 [Latest](https://community.mp3tag.de/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.mp3tag.de/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/tags.md) **Page:** 87 --- ## [What Date/Year is the right date?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-date-year-is-the-right-date/11373)
**Author:** [@ruedigers](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ruedigers)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-date-year-is-the-right-date/11373 "2011-01-02T16:26:17Z")
Hello MP3tag-gers, Happy New Year to you all! I have a question, which is not related to the software, but more a tagging question: Let’s assume you have a compilation: “Greatest Hits of FooBar” FooBar could be an a… --- ## [Suggestions For Improvement](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestions-for-improvement/11315)
**Author:** [@Michiel](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Michiel)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2011, 9:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestions-for-improvement/11315 "2011-01-02T09:39:43Z")
Filename-Filename Conversion demands indentical structure in the selected filenames. If somewhere in the selected collection there is a deviation in the filename structure the programme halts. Only by scrolling downwards… --- ## [Reading Directory](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reading-directory/11370)
**Author:** [@Jatolo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Jatolo)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2011, 1:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reading-directory/11370 "2011-01-01T13:34:59Z")
Hi… Why Mp3tag needs read one by one every tsong whe I open the program ??? How can I skip this??? I use Virtualdj Ver. 7.0.2.Pro and it does NOT do that, I type any song and it shows up… Can we add the same “feature… --- ## [Support for cue files?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/support-for-cue-files/11187)
**Author:** [@pepeillo001](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pepeillo001)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 31, 2010, 7:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/support-for-cue-files/11187 "2010-12-31T07:25:46Z")
Hi, It’s possible support for cue files?. Nowadays most of the files I managed are in flac, ape, wv, in one unique archive. I have many problems because lots of cue files have no the information about title or artist f… --- ## [how to delete the last word from the string](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-delete-the-last-word-from-the-string/11367)
**Author:** [@evergreen1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/evergreen1)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-delete-the-last-word-from-the-string/11367 "2010-12-30T23:17:38Z")
i have a title like this– Mayamma-ahiri-extraordinary please note that there is no space between words and the dash. i want to delete the last word from the string. want to get title as Mayamma-ahiri i tried the fo… --- ## [Help on converting please?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-on-converting-please/11342)
**Author:** [@T-rev](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/T-rev)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-on-converting-please/11342 "2010-12-30T21:02:18Z")
Hi all, I have loaded up some songs on the editor from my windows media player so all the songs are WMA format right now. Is there a way I can change the format to mp3? I do not see any commands on the editor that say s… --- ## [Conditional directory rename HELP!](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conditional-directory-rename-help/11364)
**Author:** [@dvuber](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dvuber)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2010, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conditional-directory-rename-help/11364 "2010-12-30T19:51:36Z")
Hello all, I am trying to organize my music better. Right now I have every album as it’s own directory in the root folder. So if I have 20 Led Zeppelin albums, it shows all 20 in the root. I would like to have it so in … --- ## [view larger album art with left click](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/view-larger-album-art-with-left-click/11362)
**Author:** [@rungumprun](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rungumprun)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/view-larger-album-art-with-left-click/11362 "2010-12-30T16:45:49Z")
It would be helpful in evaluating album art if we could left click on album art in the tag panel, and get a popup of the album art in 1:1 or some form of larger view, perhaps similar to what iTunes does. I have lots of … --- ## [Sample Size](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sample-size/7021)
**Author:** [@diedie2](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/diedie2)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sample-size/7021 "2010-12-30T14:57:02Z")
I think it would be nice if the samplesize tag would be included :slight\_smile: (maybe it is already but I couldn’t find anything about it) For those who don’t know sample size (aka bit depth) very wel: http://en.wiki… --- ## [Suggestion for tagging buttons](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-for-tagging-buttons/11346)
**Author:** [@KaHOnas](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/KaHOnas)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-for-tagging-buttons/11346 "2010-12-27T14:50:27Z")
Often times, I find myself just searching for album art since all my files are tagged in the format I prefer. It would be great if there was a separate button for album art searches instead of the pulldown menu on the i… --- ## [Suggestion: Do not show hidden files](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-do-not-show-hidden-files/11344)
**Author:** [@Urne](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Urne)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2010, 10:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-do-not-show-hidden-files/11344 "2010-12-27T10:56:30Z")
As I have many mixed albums (fx. Best of 2010), I usually choose to hide the songs which I’m not going to transfer to my mp3 player, but which I want to keep for archival purposes. If it therefore was possible to check a… --- ## [tag sources](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-sources/11343)
**Author:** [@steve1k](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/steve1k)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2010, 10:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-sources/11343 "2010-12-27T10:18:41Z")
Is any one having the same problem logging on to the tag sources… keeep getting message error connecting to server service unavailable ( 503 ) never used to get this till insalling update Any help welcome --- ## [help with filtering for non standard id3 frames](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-filtering-for-non-standard-id3-frames/10686)
**Author:** [@phoresy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/phoresy)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2010, 12:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-filtering-for-non-standard-id3-frames/10686 "2010-12-26T12:09:11Z")
Hi, I am trying to use the filter function to filter for files with non standard id3 frames. Specifically I have been using another music manager (Helium) and it adds custom frames using the TXXX standard. So for exam… --- ## [Select multiple MP3 files and add album art to all of them](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/select-multiple-mp3-files-and-add-album-art-to-all-of-them/11292)
**Author:** [@riahc3](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/riahc3)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 23, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/select-multiple-mp3-files-and-add-album-art-to-all-of-them/11292 "2010-12-23T14:31:55Z")
Hey Winamp has a feature which allows me to select various MP3s and “Send To” Auto-Tag. This does a search and for each file add their tags scanning them. I wanted to do this MP3Tag but for album art but it seems I have… --- ## [List only albums](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/list-only-albums/10630)
**Author:** [@miomir](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/miomir)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 23, 2010, 12:23am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/list-only-albums/10630 "2010-12-23T00:23:55Z")
I would like to get a simple report from my mp3 music collection listing only album name, year and artist. To do that I tried to do the following: Scan my music collection wih Mp3tag Export the results into Excel Use … --- ## [Rename artists](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-artists/11313)
**Author:** [@doohsam](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/doohsam)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 20, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-artists/11313 "2010-12-20T14:56:09Z")
Hi, I have numerous files in the same album without artists and I want to rename all of the artists at the same time with “Various Artists”. How do I do this? Thanks --- ## [Mp3tag seems to hang at times](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-seems-to-hang-at-times/11288)
**Author:** [@lemmy999](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/lemmy999)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 16, 2010, 9:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-seems-to-hang-at-times/11288 "2010-12-16T09:36:44Z")
I have been using MP3tag for about 3 years and it is a great program. However over the last year or so it seems to be getting much slower doing certain operations. If I right click on an mp3 or flac file and select “op… --- ## [How to show BITRATE as field in Tag Panel?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-show-bitrate-as-field-in-tag-panel/11220)
**Author:** [@TenYearsGone](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TenYearsGone)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 16, 2010, 6:02am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-show-bitrate-as-field-in-tag-panel/11220 "2010-12-16T06:02:55Z")
Hi, this is probably a simple one but with a little experimenting I haven’t had any luck. I’m trying to add a Bitrate field to display in the Tag Panel that shows the file’s Bitrate. I have figured out using the Tag–\>F… --- ## [Weird: 2.47a (& Earlier) Working from Thumb Drive But Not Hard Disk!](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/weird-2-47a-earlier-working-from-thumb-drive-but-not-hard-disk/11289)
**Author:** [@enz01](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/enz01)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 13, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/weird-2-47a-earlier-working-from-thumb-drive-but-not-hard-disk/11289 "2010-12-13T20:52:27Z")
OK guys, this is an odd one - I’ve posted it here becuase I can’t believe it’s a general bug since too many people are happily using mp3tag with linux mediaservers (especially Squeezebox). Apologies for the slightly long… --- ## [Add "Language" drop box like "Genre"?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-language-drop-box-like-genre/11283)
**Author:** [@neothe0ne](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/neothe0ne)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 13, 2010, 6:27am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-language-drop-box-like-genre/11283 "2010-12-13T06:27:07Z")
Would it be possible to add a Language drop box like Genre currently has in mp3tag? Maybe display the actual language, but save the tag as “xxx” like in http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code\_list.php ? (and if… --- ## [Select First Word only](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/select-first-word-only/11280)
**Author:** [@shwmcc](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/shwmcc)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/select-first-word-only/11280 "2010-12-12T20:13:37Z")
I often get Title tags that have the Composer’s name as the first word of the Title. There isn’t any punctuation between the Composer word and the Title words, and the whole field can be any number of words long. How c… --- ## [Can't See Tag Changes in Windows, ITunes, or WMP? Read this.](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-see-tag-changes-in-windows-itunes-or-wmp-read-this/11251)
**Author:** [@slbelt](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/slbelt)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2010, 6:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-see-tag-changes-in-windows-itunes-or-wmp-read-this/11251 "2010-12-12T06:08:22Z")
If you are using MP3Tag, which is awesome BTW, but don’t see the changes you make to the tags outside of the program such as in Windows 7, ITunes, or even Windows Media Player then the problem is probably not MP3Tag, it’… --- ## [Text to tag question by newbie](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/text-to-tag-question-by-newbie/11264)
**Author:** [@el\_dheeb](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/el_dheeb)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 10, 2010, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/text-to-tag-question-by-newbie/11264 "2010-12-10T15:01:12Z")
I’m new to mp3 tag (yesterday) and I tried to search the boards for this answer first. I had a hard time finding out how to do this, so I decided to sign up and make a post. I have alot of cd’s which playlist are over … --- ## [Can Mp3tag edit files being played with foobar?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-mp3tag-edit-files-being-played-with-foobar/11262)
**Author:** [@ptrk.mj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ptrk.mj)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 10, 2010, 7:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-mp3tag-edit-files-being-played-with-foobar/11262 "2010-12-10T07:54:12Z")
This is the message popped out by Mp3tag when trying the above: This is, of course, understandable. However, I really wish it could be work around somehow. I frequently want to edit tags of files which I'm currently li… --- ## [feature request - multi-level sort](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-multi-level-sort/11252)
**Author:** [@rungumprun](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rungumprun)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2010, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-multi-level-sort/11252 "2010-12-08T13:17:17Z")
Any chance of providing a multi-level sort ability across the displayed tags? Three levels would work great. Thanks! --- ## [Simple question - how to rename tags not via filenames??](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/simple-question-how-to-rename-tags-not-via-filenames/11225)
**Author:** [@SamPos](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/SamPos)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2010, 1:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/simple-question-how-to-rename-tags-not-via-filenames/11225 "2010-12-07T13:12:30Z")
Hi, Firstly, thanks for such a capable, powerful and wonderful program. But I found it SO hard to use!! Now, before I start, don’t get me wrong - I’m no beginer to these sort of things. I’ve even written my own programs… --- ## [Feature request - Adjust tag information](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-adjust-tag-information/11249)
**Author:** [@BGuardian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/BGuardian)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2010, 11:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-adjust-tag-information/11249 "2010-12-07T11:40:45Z")
It would be nice if there was an option to choose (on the list box to the right) the columns to display like in the main interface and their order. For example I believe track titles, if they exist, would be better for m… --- ## [Question Regarding UI Colors](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/question-regarding-ui-colors/11203)
**Author:** [@Fweega](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Fweega)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2010, 10:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/question-regarding-ui-colors/11203 "2010-12-04T22:57:04Z")
Hey, I love every bit of mp3tag except for the inability to change around the color of the UI. I do a lot of consecutive tagging late at night and the bright white from the UI makes it a bit tough to read. I would reall… --- ## [new function to create ITUNSMPB tag?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/new-function-to-create-itunsmpb-tag/11208)
**Author:** [@djs777](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djs777)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/new-function-to-create-itunsmpb-tag/11208 "2010-12-04T18:56:33Z")
I love the improved compatibility with iTunes tags, and being able to convert Replaygain tags into an iTunes tag using the function $rg2sc. This greatly reduces my library load times, which I do frequently as I mess wit… --- ## [Filename to Title](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-to-title/11216)
**Author:** [@LarryLaser](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LarryLaser)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-to-title/11216 "2010-12-01T20:12:56Z")
Hello All smart folks, I am still trying to learn how to use the MP3TAG programing. Currently I am trying to copy only a part or the Filename to the Title column. Filename (many to do) 01COL - Teaching in Parables.mp… [Previous page](https://community.mp3tag.de/c/general/20.md?page=85) [Next page](https://community.mp3tag.de/c/general/20.md?page=87)