# General Discussion **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/c/general/20.md?page=87 [Latest](https://community.mp3tag.de/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.mp3tag.de/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/tags.md) **Page:** 88 --- ## [Exellent Programme - Bad Guide/Help](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exellent-programme-bad-guide-help/11041)
**Author:** [@Michiel](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Michiel)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exellent-programme-bad-guide-help/11041 "2010-12-01T16:53:41Z")
With MP3tag I succeeded to alter a mess off information on a collection of 10.000 mp3 files into a clean and well organized collection, extreemly easy to acces according to a serie of wishes for filtering and sorting. N… --- ## [Select All Traks after Drag-in-Drop](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/select-all-traks-after-drag-in-drop/11206)
**Author:** [@softwork\_brasil](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/softwork_brasil)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/select-all-traks-after-drag-in-drop/11206 "2010-11-29T17:19:47Z")
Hello developers. I really like the application and use a lot! I would suggest a very simple implementation: After performing the drag-drop-in, bring all selected tracks, facilitating the process of adding the cover a… --- ## [how to get the upper case](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-get-the-upper-case/11204)
**Author:** [@evergreen1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/evergreen1)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2010, 5:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-get-the-upper-case/11204 "2010-11-29T05:57:09Z")
how to get upper case for the first letter of the word which starts after a dash i have a title like—\>Mickson-jass suppose i want to get it like—\> Mickson-Jass what to do? --- ## [Support for BMP format files for covers](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/support-for-bmp-format-files-for-covers/10700)
**Author:** [@Surcouf](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Surcouf)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2010, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/support-for-bmp-format-files-for-covers/10700 "2010-11-27T13:21:25Z")
When I want to attach covers to some music the program automatically sees “only” jpg, jpeg and png files. Unfortenately, sometimes I have covers in the bmp format and although it is not that hard to convert them to a jpg… --- ## [how can i bring %dummy% in the drop down list of items?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-can-i-bring-dummy-in-the-drop-down-list-of-items/11183)
**Author:** [@evergreen1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/evergreen1)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2010, 11:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-can-i-bring-dummy-in-the-drop-down-list-of-items/11183 "2010-11-27T11:33:42Z")
in the drop down list of items such as title, artist,album etc i don’t see dummy. how can i bring that item in the list? thanks. --- ## [More on Album Artist and Band with FLAC and dbpa](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/more-on-album-artist-and-band-with-flac-and-dbpa/11185)
**Author:** [@garym](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/garym)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/more-on-album-artist-and-band-with-flac-and-dbpa/11185 "2010-11-26T20:35:34Z")
This is probably clear to most folks, but I struggled a bit this morning with my first ripping since mp3tag changed how it deals with band/albumartist/album artist. I thought I could no longer use “Album Artist” (with t… --- ## [how to get the former actions if i format the system?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-get-the-former-actions-if-i-format-the-system/11170)
**Author:** [@evergreen1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/evergreen1)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2010, 10:01am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-get-the-former-actions-if-i-format-the-system/11170 "2010-11-26T10:01:20Z")
suppose i have created so many actions. when i format the system all those actions will be lost. what to do to get back the actions which i created \>without doing those actions afresh is there any options through which i… --- ## [Support for Apple Lossless Files (\*.m4a) ??](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/support-for-apple-lossless-files-m4a/11176)
**Author:** [@d2b](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/d2b)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/support-for-apple-lossless-files-m4a/11176 "2010-11-24T00:17:41Z")
Does MP3tag read and write tags to \*.m4a files correctly? --- ## [Directory tree?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/directory-tree/11141)
**Author:** [@kyle775](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kyle775)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/directory-tree/11141 "2010-11-23T17:26:36Z")
I am not sure if this is available already or not… i cannot seem to find anything. It would be nice to have a directory tree/explorer view which would allow me to click on a folder that has the files i want to edit in i… --- ## [Searching/filter only a particular column](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/searching-filter-only-a-particular-column/11161)
**Author:** [@thorsonb](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/thorsonb)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/searching-filter-only-a-particular-column/11161 "2010-11-21T15:55:46Z")
I remember back in the older versions i was able to have a drop down box with my 'filter tab' (F3) which i can select which column I want to search. But now i got version 2.46a and i cant quite figure it out. When I … --- ## [column that shows if file has album art?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/column-that-shows-if-file-has-album-art/11142)
**Author:** [@kyle775](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kyle775)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2010, 6:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/column-that-shows-if-file-has-album-art/11142 "2010-11-21T06:37:22Z")
it would be nice to add a column to show if files have album art in their tags. --- ## [Ignore first line of text file?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ignore-first-line-of-text-file/11146)
**Author:** [@andrewquilley](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/andrewquilley)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2010, 11:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ignore-first-line-of-text-file/11146 "2010-11-20T11:35:38Z")
I’d like an option to ignore the first line of a text file when using Convert \> Text File - Tag, because it may contain column headers. For example: Title-\>Artist-\>Album-\>Track Come Together-\>Beatles, The-\>Abbey Road-\>1… --- ## [Drag & Drop album art from browser](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/drag-drop-album-art-from-browser/11037)
**Author:** [@Coastie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Coastie)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/drag-drop-album-art-from-browser/11037 "2010-11-19T20:32:03Z")
I am able to Drag and Drop album art from Firefox into MP3Tag, but not from Chrome or IE. Any chance of adding a compatibility for Chrome? IE, view the album art in Chrome from Amazon, and drag & Drop into MP3tag? --- ## [Musepack sv8 support](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/musepack-sv8-support/6368)
**Author:** [@Antonski](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Antonski)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/musepack-sv8-support/6368 "2010-11-19T20:26:44Z")
Hello Florian, Would you please add support Musepack sv8 to Mp3tag? Currently APE2 tags are displayed correctly, but information about the codec, bitrate, frequency and lenght is not available. Also, I would really lo… --- ## [Musepack chapters recognition](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/musepack-chapters-recognition/10032)
**Author:** [@Antonski](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Antonski)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/musepack-chapters-recognition/10032 "2010-11-19T20:16:22Z")
Hello, I would suggest this as a feature request. Is it possible to display Musepack SV8 chapters, probably in extended tag panel? They are situated at the end of the stream (before the track tag) and follow APEv2 spe… --- ## [Automatically enforced custom tagging rules.](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/automatically-enforced-custom-tagging-rules/11112)
**Author:** [@binaermensch](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/binaermensch)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/automatically-enforced-custom-tagging-rules/11112 "2010-11-18T14:58:06Z")
Hello! I’m very interested in keeping the tags of my music library strictly standards compliant. However, sometimes I have to use media players which doesn’t seem to bother about standards at all. (My mobile phone for … --- ## [Mp3tag help page needs update soon](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-help-page-needs-update-soon/11124)
**Author:** [@Lee\_Dailey](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Lee_Dailey)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2010, 9:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-help-page-needs-update-soon/11124 "2010-11-15T09:08:01Z")
howdy y’all, “ NEW: scripting functions $trimLeft, $trimRight, $cutLeft and $cutRight. ” now that 2.46e is out with new script functions, when is someone going to have the time to update the script list? \[grin\] i ain… --- ## [alignment of field entries](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/alignment-of-field-entries/11077)
**Author:** [@evergreen1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/evergreen1)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2010, 10:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/alignment-of-field-entries/11077 "2010-11-10T10:49:53Z")
i have to align the entries in a tag field.(example- title,left align) how can i accomplish that in mp3 tag? is there any actions? --- ## [Album Art Size](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-size/11101)
**Author:** [@mountainking](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mountainking)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-art-size/11101 "2010-11-09T20:25:27Z")
The device I use to listen to music will not display any cover over 499kb. I want to list all the covers by there file size to swap out covers that will not display and upgrade low res art works. There is a cover file si… --- ## [would someone please point me to the function docs?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/would-someone-please-point-me-to-the-function-docs/11083)
**Author:** [@Lee\_Dailey](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Lee_Dailey)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/would-someone-please-point-me-to-the-function-docs/11083 "2010-11-08T19:26:41Z")
howdy y’all, i want to play with the various built in functions and can’t seem to find the docs for them. \[blush\] i’m looking at the $trim() function just now, but i’ll wanna dig thru the other stuff soon enuf. please,… --- ## [Request: $ltrim() and $rtrim() functions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-ltrim-and-rtrim-functions/10478)
**Author:** [@JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JJ_Johnson)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2010, 2:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-ltrim-and-rtrim-functions/10478 "2010-11-08T14:03:05Z")
It doesn’t make much sense requiring the use of regular expressions to perform such simple tasks. These functions are commonly available in most programming languages. --- ## [Improvement suggestion](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/improvement-suggestion/11073)
**Author:** [@dr-412](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dr-412)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/improvement-suggestion/11073 "2010-11-06T22:38:15Z")
Concerning Covert art display, on the bottom of the left menu : It’s hard to see rapidly if the covert displayed is a “file” covert, or a “directory” covert since the area is used for the both usages. It may be great t… --- ## [improve ease of use of web source scripts](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/improve-ease-of-use-of-web-source-scripts/11069)
**Author:** [@djs777](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djs777)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/improve-ease-of-use-of-web-source-scripts/11069 "2010-11-06T00:05:27Z")
I am extremely impressed with the power of the web source framework and participation on this site in writing scripts. I’d love to try and use as many as I can, but I find it difficult to keep track of them. Please con… --- ## [please add more robust FLAC tag read/write/remove options](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-add-more-robust-flac-tag-read-write-remove-options/11054)
**Author:** [@djs777](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djs777)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 5, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/please-add-more-robust-flac-tag-read-write-remove-options/11054 "2010-11-05T22:36:28Z")
I got hosed in another application that turned out to be because I had ID3 tags in my FLAC files along with my VorbisComment tags. I’d love to be able to delete the non-VorbisComment tags in my FLAC files, but can’t see… --- ## [Open With or Send-to (suggestion)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/open-with-or-send-to-suggestion/11063)
**Author:** [@mjburns](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mjburns)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2010, 10:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/open-with-or-send-to-suggestion/11063 "2010-11-04T22:58:33Z")
It would be very nice to be able to right click on the current highlighted file and “send to” or “Open With”. Specifically mp3DirectCut, to trim various noise from the beginning and/or end of a file. :slight\_smile: --- ## [Split Field By A Multiple-character Separator](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/split-field-by-a-multiple-character-separator/11056)
**Author:** [@ld\_pvl](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ld_pvl)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 3, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/split-field-by-a-multiple-character-separator/11056 "2010-11-03T20:16:29Z")
Hi, it’s me again :slight\_smile: I searched Google and the forum index on this but couldn’t find anything relevant. In the help section it says This action type allows for splitting values of a field into multiple separ… --- ## [mkv and mka support!! (suggestion)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mkv-and-mka-support-suggestion/11058)
**Author:** [@vvcepheus7](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/vvcepheus7)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 3, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mkv-and-mka-support-suggestion/11058 "2010-11-03T18:21:56Z")
Hello, Some time ago I use mp3Tag to edit tags of videos in mp4 format. Also I have many videos in mkv format and I would like to edit the tags. Could support for this file format? Thanks and greetings! --- ## [Syntax For Multiple Artists](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/syntax-for-multiple-artists/11048)
**Author:** [@ld\_pvl](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ld_pvl)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [November 3, 2010, 3:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/syntax-for-multiple-artists/11048 "2010-11-03T15:10:02Z")
Hello, I am trying to convert my tag info to file names. The problem I’m having is that if a song has multiple artists, their names are written together without any spaces and I would like to have something in between t… --- ## [comments help or suggestion](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comments-help-or-suggestion/11042)
**Author:** [@djs777](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djs777)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comments-help-or-suggestion/11042 "2010-11-01T18:54:28Z")
I suggest that Mp3tag read Comment fields the same way iTunes does. I don’t know exactly what iTunes does or how it does it, but the behavior of iTunes is that it reads and displays all comment tags in a file, while Mp3… --- ## [Field renaming.](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/field-renaming/11039)
**Author:** [@KaoDome](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/KaoDome)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2010, 8:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/field-renaming/11039 "2010-11-01T08:28:42Z")
Hello, this might turn into a feature request, but it may already be implemented or a way to accomplish it. In the latest development version, several name fields were changed like BAND-\>ALBUMARTIST. Even though I don’t… [Previous page](https://community.mp3tag.de/c/general/20.md?page=86) [Next page](https://community.mp3tag.de/c/general/20.md?page=88)