# Support

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/c/support/19.md?page=134

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## [Actions (Quick) - code/string for all info in field](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-quick-code-string-for-all-info-in-field/52004)

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**Author:** [@polishjoe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/polishjoe)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 17, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-quick-code-string-for-all-info-in-field/52004 "2021-02-17T17:49:11Z")

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Hello, I am using the Actions (Quick) utility and I have highlighted a whole bunch of songs that I want to replace each of their unique Album titles with one specific album title (in the replace with field) for all of t…

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## [Edit Traktor POPULARIMETER value in mp3tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edit-traktor-popularimeter-value-in-mp3tag/47178)

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**Author:** [@seb303](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/seb303)\
**Replies:** 26\
**Last updated:** [February 17, 2021, 10:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edit-traktor-popularimeter-value-in-mp3tag/47178 "2021-02-17T10:19:07Z")

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Hi, I predominately DJ using Traktor (Pro 2) software, but when organising/tagging my music I tend to use mp3tag. The main fields I use to organise my music are Genre, Comment & Rating (POPULARIMETER). The first 2 are…

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## [Importing ID only (eg ASIN), with TagSources](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/importing-id-only-eg-asin-with-tagsources/51924)

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**Author:** [@GreenFish](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/GreenFish)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 16, 2021, 1:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/importing-id-only-eg-asin-with-tagsources/51924 "2021-02-16T13:49:23Z")

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Hi. This great tool has already enabled me to make a lot of progress organising about 500 CDs. So far: ripped with WMP 12. (Note for anyone else's future reference, do not auto-rip as the first track will have incomp…

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## [System Startup opens Mp3tag in maximized windows instead of minimized form](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/system-startup-opens-mp3tag-in-maximized-windows-instead-of-minimized-form/47864)

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**Author:** [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)\
**Replies:** 23\
**Last updated:** [February 16, 2021, 2:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/system-startup-opens-mp3tag-in-maximized-windows-instead-of-minimized-form/47864 "2021-02-16T02:54:42Z")

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Recently I came to a conclusion that I am wasting time and clicks by clicking Mp3tag icon on the Taskbar and then selecting a pinned down to it playlist- just to see all of the my music files being loaded up to Mp3tag; w…

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## [Flac file error](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/flac-file-error/51984)

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**Author:** [@Burgham619](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Burgham619)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 15, 2021, 2:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/flac-file-error/51984 "2021-02-15T02:39:00Z")

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Good Afternoon I hope you can help? I've used MP3tag for a while without issues. I was recently trying to add album art to a FLAC file. For an unknown reason it was taking an unusually long time and not completing the t…

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## [Remove Duplicate Tag Fields](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-duplicate-tag-fields/51966)

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**Author:** [@tim00789](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tim00789)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 13, 2021, 7:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-duplicate-tag-fields/51966 "2021-02-13T19:40:59Z")

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I have a number of duplicated fields which appear after adding during a "TXT to TAG" import. I would like to remove the extraneous ones, such as "Comment" and "comments". I have a field called "Comments" I would like to …

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## [Replace diacritics within folder names](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-diacritics-within-folder-names/51937)

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**Author:** [@Apesbrain](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Apesbrain)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [February 13, 2021, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-diacritics-within-folder-names/51937 "2021-02-13T14:07:07Z")

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I have succeeded in replacing diacritics within filenames, but is there a way to do the same with folder/subfolder names? Thanks.

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## [Problem exporting Artist Tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-exporting-artist-tag/51939)

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**Author:** [@Bernard](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Bernard)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [February 12, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-exporting-artist-tag/51939 "2021-02-12T17:02:38Z")

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Sometimes the Artist Tag contains data with two backslashes. When I export the Artist Tag, I only get the first name. I tried Replace "\\" with",", but that does not work.

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## [Custom Tags in Comment field](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/custom-tags-in-comment-field/51947)

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**Author:** [@chargeproduction](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chargeproduction)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [February 12, 2021, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/custom-tags-in-comment-field/51947 "2021-02-12T16:05:09Z")

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Hey folks, Im DJ CHARGE and im Using Serato for my Music Stuff and Library Management. I dont like the fact in Serato that u cannot add multiple Custom Tags like in Rekordbox. I used the comment field for my custom tag…

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## [Formatting Problem with Genre Tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/formatting-problem-with-genre-tag/51943)

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**Author:** [@PoizenJam](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/PoizenJam)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [February 12, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/formatting-problem-with-genre-tag/51943 "2021-02-12T14:12:03Z")

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I am trying to do something extremely simple. Take the GENRE tag and put all of its contents insider of parenthesis. So- %GENRE% -\> (%GENRE%) However, I cannot get this to work. If I use 'Convert Tag-Tag', the preview…

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## [Find Songs that don´t have the word "x"](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-songs-that-don-t-have-the-word-x/51940)

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**Author:** [@josebaudrand](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/josebaudrand)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 11, 2021, 5:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-songs-that-don-t-have-the-word-x/51940 "2021-02-11T17:41:38Z")

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Hi guys, do you know if it´s possible to find in a bulk of tracks, only those ones that don´t contain an exact word? ex. search all the songs that don´t have the word "vocals" to find the words I know you can use F3: %…

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## [How to edit zip files?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-edit-zip-files/51915)

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**Author:** [@Lurker](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Lurker)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [February 9, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-edit-zip-files/51915 "2021-02-09T15:43:21Z")

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Hello. I was wondering how to edit files that are zipped. They only seem to work if the files are in a folder. I tried looking in the settings but I can't seem to find much. Thanks for the help advance.

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## [Mp3Tag and MP4 tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-and-mp4-tags/51921)

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**Author:** [@rappel](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rappel)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 9, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-and-mp4-tags/51921 "2021-02-09T14:33:54Z")

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Just starting this journey, so be gentle in your response please. Any info or references to resolving the following gratefully received. Thanks. My biggest issue with this so far is not MP3Tag per se and it's use rath…

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## [Tagging MP4 video files with extended tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-mp4-video-files-with-extended-tags/19716)

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**Author:** [@RussellRay](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/RussellRay)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [February 9, 2021, 12:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-mp4-video-files-with-extended-tags/19716 "2021-02-09T12:36:14Z")

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Hello all I have been using MP3tag (V 2.69) for some time for tagging my music files (genre - artist - year - album - trackno. - title). I really like the way the program works. It’s brilliant. A small donation is on…

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## [Format Title with and incremental number](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/format-title-with-and-incremental-number/51916)

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**Author:** [@sosullivan](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sosullivan)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 9, 2021, 9:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/format-title-with-and-incremental-number/51916 "2021-02-09T09:06:25Z")

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Hi folks, Hope someone can help with my question: I'd like to add an action that adds a number at the beginning of each track for example: 35 - 01 - Blah.mp3 and next time 36 - 01 - Bleh.mp3 I know how to make the …

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## [How to remove UnknownAlbum folder and shift all files up one level](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-unknownalbum-folder-and-shift-all-files-up-one-level/51907)

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**Author:** [@alex151](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/alex151)\
**Replies:** 15\
**Last updated:** [February 8, 2021, 8:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-unknownalbum-folder-and-shift-all-files-up-one-level/51907 "2021-02-08T08:55:49Z")

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Hello, So I have a music management software that created folder for every artist.. Currently it goes like this C:\\Music\\ArtistName&Track title\\UnknownAlbum\\xxxxx.mp3 Id like to remove the "unknownAlbum" from the dire…

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## [Checking for Typos / editing Fields](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/checking-for-typos-editing-fields/51900)

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**Author:** [@Wolksby](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Wolksby)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [February 7, 2021, 8:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/checking-for-typos-editing-fields/51900 "2021-02-07T20:39:21Z")

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Hi, I am extremely pleased with Mp3tag, which marries up very well with Poweramp to play my Music Collection. There are about 600 Classical CDs in the collection, and they're stored on an SD card on my phone. To get ev…

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## [Must be a Poltergeist altering a tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/must-be-a-poltergeist-altering-a-tag/51891)

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**Author:** [@Dale](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Dale)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 7, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/must-be-a-poltergeist-altering-a-tag/51891 "2021-02-07T14:36:12Z")

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I am new at this and was attracted to MP3Tag because of its remarkable versatility. So what could be better to organize traveling music? But I’m having a problem and am very mystified. I am using Filename to tag, ie s…

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## [Save automatically](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/save-automatically/51889)

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**Author:** [@autom](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/autom)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 7, 2021, 9:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/save-automatically/51889 "2021-02-07T09:15:20Z")

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Is there any possibility to save changes automatically before starting a action sequence? e.g. I changed artist name manually (don't click save) and the start a sequence to write artist name to song title etc.

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## [WMP songs to mp3](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp-songs-to-mp3/51878)

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**Author:** [@flowfab](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/flowfab)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 6, 2021, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp-songs-to-mp3/51878 "2021-02-06T21:00:03Z")

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How can I transfer Windows Media and data (songs) player to mp3 player?

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## [Adding file to each photo](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-file-to-each-photo/51874)

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**Author:** [@smaugtheterrible](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/smaugtheterrible)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [February 6, 2021, 7:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-file-to-each-photo/51874 "2021-02-06T19:21:24Z")

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I wish there was a way to add a ton of files and add each photo to each files example List - Disney animated canon uk - TheTVDB.com

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## [Deezer track metadata](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/deezer-track-metadata/51873)

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**Author:** [@autumnra1n](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/autumnra1n)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 11:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/deezer-track-metadata/51873 "2021-02-05T23:48:28Z")

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Hi everyone, I've got a lot of tracks from Deezer where the artist is Artist1, Artist2. since they are featured artists etc. What's the best way to deal with this since I scrobble to last.fm? Would it be to add another t…

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## [V3.05 adding dashes to all TITLE tags on load](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/v3-05-adding-dashes-to-all-title-tags-on-load/51864)

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**Author:** [@kittmaster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kittmaster)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/v3-05-adding-dashes-to-all-title-tags-on-load/51864 "2021-02-05T18:38:27Z")

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Just installed today from v3.03 and I started seeing dashes being added to all white spaces in the title tag only. This has to be a build issue...never seen this unwelcome behavior before. If I manually replace title w…

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## [M4B file cannot be opened for editng](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/m4b-file-cannot-be-opened-for-editng/51661)

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**Author:** [@idealbrandon](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/idealbrandon)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/m4b-file-cannot-be-opened-for-editng/51661 "2021-02-05T17:23:02Z")

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I've scoured the forums here for hours and can't find a way to fix this. I have around 400 audiobooks in M4B format, converted using AudioBookBuilder on a mac. I've never had any issues with these files, except with MP3t…

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## [Use MP3Tag to rename other file types (V2)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/use-mp3tag-to-rename-other-file-types-v2/51859)

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**Author:** [@123qweasd](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/123qweasd)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/use-mp3tag-to-rename-other-file-types-v2/51859 "2021-02-05T15:50:04Z")

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Reopening a closed question for context: I love the flexibility of MP3Tag to rename media files; however I would really like to use it to rename my other files as well (MPG, AVI, TXT, anything...); Is there a way to ext…

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## [Editing MP4 tags seems to hang using the main window (as opposed to the left panel)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/editing-mp4-tags-seems-to-hang-using-the-main-window-as-opposed-to-the-left-panel/51861)

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**Author:** [@Jonius](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Jonius)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2021, 7:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/editing-mp4-tags-seems-to-hang-using-the-main-window-as-opposed-to-the-left-panel/51861 "2021-02-05T07:00:45Z")

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I've been going through and adding Titles to my MKV footage through the main window, no problems. But I've been remuxing those MKV to MP4, and when I tried to add tags the same way, MP3Tag would freeze up, the larger the…

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## [Date tag from DD.MM.YYYY to YYYY.MM.DD](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/date-tag-from-dd-mm-yyyy-to-yyyy-mm-dd/51857)

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**Author:** [@Pasi](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Pasi)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [February 4, 2021, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/date-tag-from-dd-mm-yyyy-to-yyyy-mm-dd/51857 "2021-02-04T15:30:37Z")

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I seriously need help with this issue. All my music has been tagged with "date" tag in format DD.MM.YYY, so f.ex. 05-10-1990. I now noticed, that several music player programs do not seem to understand the year, as it's …

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## [Discogs Lookup for Multi-Artist Albums](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discogs-lookup-for-multi-artist-albums/51839)

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**Author:** [@rko31415](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rko31415)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [February 3, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discogs-lookup-for-multi-artist-albums/51839 "2021-02-03T21:42:36Z")

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Looking up the track Majalefa a Morena - Sengiyezwa (ARTIST - TITLE) with both the artist / title, just the artist or just the title gives no hits with DISCOGS lookup. And yet the track is part of the album Exotic Voices…

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## [Multi disc album folder renaming action-different levels](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multi-disc-album-folder-renaming-action-different-levels/51834)

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**Author:** [@usavaci](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/usavaci)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [February 3, 2021, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multi-disc-album-folder-renaming-action-different-levels/51834 "2021-02-03T12:14:34Z")

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I have created an action for renaming folders based on extension. With this code, if extension is flac it will add bitspersample and sample rate to the folder name otherwise it add the extension like MP3 or ALAC. %ARTI…

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## [Rename Folders with MP3 or FLAC indicator](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-folders-with-mp3-or-flac-indicator/11422)

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**Author:** [@richmail](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/richmail)\
**Replies:** 18\
**Last updated:** [February 3, 2021, 10:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-folders-with-mp3-or-flac-indicator/11422 "2021-02-03T10:22:53Z")

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I want to rename Folder/Directory in the format ABC-1990-Absolutely \[FLac\] \[17\] \[Y\] %albumartist% - \[%year% - \]%album% %extension% %\_total\_files% %filetype% %\_covers% %\_filename\_ext% I dont know whether i need filena…

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