# Support **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/c/support/19.md?page=168 [Latest](https://community.mp3tag.de/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.mp3tag.de/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/tags.md) **Page:** 169 --- ## [About using functions with regular expressions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/about-using-functions-with-regular-expressions/46197)
**Author:** [@jvilar](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jvilar)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 21, 2019, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/about-using-functions-with-regular-expressions/46197 "2019-08-21T15:18:13Z")
When trying to use functions in the replace argument of the regexp function, the function is applied BEFORE the regular expression. It makes sense as it is the usual composition of functions. For example, if I try to pu… --- ## [can I save a file list?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-i-save-a-file-list/4681)
**Author:** [@NovaGuy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/NovaGuy)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 21, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-i-save-a-file-list/4681 "2019-08-21T14:16:05Z")
Hi everyone, This is my first post here, so please be gentle :smiley: Can I save the tag data for a folder or folder tree so that MP3tag doesn’t have to scan the folder(s) every time? Scanning thousands of files takes… --- ## [Cover art gets not changed](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-gets-not-changed/46185)
**Author:** [@andileni](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/andileni)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2019, 11:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cover-art-gets-not-changed/46185 "2019-08-20T11:25:30Z")
Hello, I tried to replace my cover art, but the image is not changed. I used the built-in MusicBrainz option. Regards Andi --- ## [Discogs authorization step by step](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discogs-authorization-step-by-step/46178)
**Author:** [@Sonic1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sonic1)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2019, 11:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discogs-authorization-step-by-step/46178 "2019-08-20T11:05:55Z")
I have spent all day Googling and reading posts where folks get stuck on this one. The MP3TAG help index only discusses freedb under the sources topic. There is no obvious way to enter my Discogs token or credentials i… --- ## [How to dock unpinned floating Tag Panel back to main window](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-dock-unpinned-floating-tag-panel-back-to-main-window/46183)
**Author:** [@Etz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Etz)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2019, 9:13am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-dock-unpinned-floating-tag-panel-back-to-main-window/46183 "2019-08-20T09:13:36Z")
I somehow managed to unpin it (not sure how), how do you pin it back? :slight\_smile: --- ## [Failed Authentication to Discogs](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/failed-authentication-to-discogs/19139)
**Author:** [@Beluna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Beluna)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [July 13, 2018, 1:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/failed-authentication-to-discogs/19139 "2018-07-13T13:42:35Z")
Can’t authenticate into Discogs. Logged into discog revoked but did not solve the problem. Where are the instructions to connect to Discogs. Thanks --- ## [Art size in table / grid](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/art-size-in-table-grid/46174)
**Author:** [@DallasDave](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DallasDave)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 17, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/art-size-in-table-grid/46174 "2019-08-17T15:29:46Z")
I've seen several topics on art not displaying for certain image sizes / art file sizes. I have this problem in my car, where images over 400x400px won't display. Is there a way to have this image resolution show up as a… --- ## [Missing Tags in some MP3 files](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/missing-tags-in-some-mp3-files/46170)
**Author:** [@DrFix](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DrFix)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 17, 2019, 11:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/missing-tags-in-some-mp3-files/46170 "2019-08-17T11:38:43Z")
Some mp3 files that I open in MP3Tag do not show tags for length (duration) nor bitrate. This information is available in Windows File Explorer, right click the mp3 and choose properties. This information is available … --- ## [Title not recognized](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/title-not-recognized/46172)
**Author:** [@nimmdieda](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/nimmdieda)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 17, 2019, 11:13am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/title-not-recognized/46172 "2019-08-17T11:13:24Z")
For quite some time I realize that title entries are often not recognized by mp3tag. I've just updated to v2.97 to make sure I'm not missing anything. I usually utilize 1by1 mp3 player to enter title information and it g… --- ## [Tag Importing from external sources](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-importing-from-external-sources/46153)
**Author:** [@Kuchlei](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Kuchlei)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 16, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-importing-from-external-sources/46153 "2019-08-16T19:53:56Z")
I've been unable to find an exact Q&A for my situation and am looking for some help. I have a database (MS Access) that contains all the information regarding my music (MP3) files I have on my computer including a direc… --- ## [Rename album name for batch of MP3 files](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-album-name-for-batch-of-mp3-files/46162)
**Author:** [@stanc](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/stanc)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 16, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-album-name-for-batch-of-mp3-files/46162 "2019-08-16T13:26:55Z")
I have a number of MP3 files that I want to renamer the album tag to the same album name . Be grateful for help with this --- ## [2.97 doesn't show tags created earlier \> 2.91 does](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/2-97-doesnt-show-tags-created-earlier-2-91-does/46160)
**Author:** [@doobre](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/doobre)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 16, 2019, 5:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/2-97-doesnt-show-tags-created-earlier-2-91-does/46160 "2019-08-16T05:43:49Z")
have been using for years, updated for the first time in a while from 2.91 to 2.97, later on noticed that some tags created in older files do not show anymore. After a while of doubting my encoding (dbpoweramp) and re-en… --- ## [Empty folder](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/empty-folder/16778)
**Author:** [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [August 15, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/empty-folder/16778 "2019-08-15T14:12:55Z")
Hello I would like to know if there is an automatic way to find out all the empty sub-folders via Mp3tag; but only those that have a name that do not appaer in the ARTIST tag of all the files that are stored in some of … --- ## [Heute fehlende Cover bei Discogs-Script](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/heute-fehlende-cover-bei-discogs-script/46101)
**Author:** [@teddybaer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/teddybaer)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 7, 2019, 8:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/heute-fehlende-cover-bei-discogs-script/46101 "2019-08-07T08:25:48Z")
Heute Morgen werden beim Standard Discogs-Skript keine Cover mehr geliefert. Hat sich bei Discogs irgendwas geändert? Werde das Taggen für heute mal einstellen. --- ## [Help Left Function](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-left-function/46090)
**Author:** [@fracta](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fracta)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 6, 2019, 7:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-left-function/46090 "2019-08-06T07:52:19Z")
Hello, I am writing several info into the Comment field. Basically I have the key, then rating, the other info.. I would like to extract the key and the rating from the comment field to 2 additional fields called: KEY… --- ## [How to feed automatically ONLY the year field from tag sources (freed, discos...)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-feed-automatically-only-the-year-field-from-tag-sources-freed-discos/46093)
**Author:** [@fracta](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fracta)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 6, 2019, 7:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-feed-automatically-only-the-year-field-from-tag-sources-freed-discos/46093 "2019-08-06T07:42:07Z")
Hello, on my mp3 database, the field year is not always correct. How can I do to fill it in automatically from the tag sources freed, discogs... today it is filling all the fields...and I dont know how to select a spec… --- ## [Comment field feed in automatically - tag to tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comment-field-feed-in-automatically-tag-to-tag/46094)
**Author:** [@fracta](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fracta)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 6, 2019, 7:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comment-field-feed-in-automatically-tag-to-tag/46094 "2019-08-06T07:39:14Z")
Hello, I have been able to split the key, rating and mood into 3 column. Now I want to fill it automatically in the comment field. comment value:%comment% field:%initialkey% - %rate copy% - %mood% but nothing is co… --- ## [Moving Track & Discnumber from Comment field](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-track-discnumber-from-comment-field/46070)
**Author:** [@coyote](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/coyote)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 4, 2019, 9:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-track-discnumber-from-comment-field/46070 "2019-08-04T21:39:01Z")
I've got tracknumbers in the wrong field (Comment) on a large number of FLAC filesets, and would love it if some kind person would tell me how to fix this easiest please. On some filesets (1) the tracknumbers look like… --- ## [Data Corrupt after MP3Tag + FLAC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/data-corrupt-after-mp3tag-flac/46073)
**Author:** [@ARiyou2000](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ARiyou2000)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 4, 2019, 9:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/data-corrupt-after-mp3tag-flac/46073 "2019-08-04T09:58:03Z")
Hey i used MP3Tag for editing some Tag and Cover art fo my music library. It turns out that many of my file damaged after editting. I'm sure that is caused by MP3Tag. I found many people with same problem but no answer… --- ## [Data Corruption](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/data-corruption/8710)
**Author:** [@Mistaknly](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Mistaknly)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2019, 7:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/data-corruption/8710 "2019-08-03T19:34:31Z")
PREFACE: First off, mp3tag isn’t closing gracefully and may actually be causing the problems discussed below. What I just discovered by trying to install 2.43C (and have seen before but forgot) is that there are multip… --- ## [Year field not showing in mp4 videos in VirtualDJ2018](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-field-not-showing-in-mp4-videos-in-virtualdj2018/46068)
**Author:** [@Steve\_Sharp](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Steve_Sharp)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2019, 8:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-field-not-showing-in-mp4-videos-in-virtualdj2018/46068 "2019-08-02T08:04:06Z")
Weird. I tag my .mp4 video files using mp3tag. I'm pretty meticulous with my naming conventions, including the year. I don't usually have the year column open in my Virtual DJ browser, but I'm preparing for a class reuni… --- ## [Batching & Creating Own File Name](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batching-creating-own-file-name/46052)
**Author:** [@diane](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/diane)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2019, 6:10am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batching-creating-own-file-name/46052 "2019-08-02T06:10:38Z")
I am new to mp3tag. I am creating a playlist from some music files that I am using. I want to hide all of the song names, so I want to name all my music files with the same name (Example: Filename = Dog; for every singl… --- ## [MusicBrainz search format](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/musicbrainz-search-format/46066)
**Author:** [@ZbSKRN](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ZbSKRN)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/musicbrainz-search-format/46066 "2019-08-01T21:45:44Z")
How do I change MuzicBrainz to search for tags by title and artist instead of album and artist. I tried editing the MusicBrainz.scr as below without success any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. FYI most of my … --- ## [Fill YEAR from first 4 characters of the folder](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/fill-year-from-first-4-characters-of-the-folder/46057)
**Author:** [@ElimGarak](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ElimGarak)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/fill-year-from-first-4-characters-of-the-folder/46057 "2019-07-31T12:20:22Z")
Hello! I'd need an action to fill the YEAR field from the folder containing the file. The format of the folder is like the following, so I'd need to copy the four first characters: 2019 Dummy folder I've tried adaptin… --- ## [Corrupt file headers/tags in MP3 files](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/corrupt-file-headers-tags-in-mp3-files/46048)
**Author:** [@Brothbeard](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Brothbeard)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2019, 10:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/corrupt-file-headers-tags-in-mp3-files/46048 "2019-07-30T22:01:59Z")
I've an odd problem that has occurred on (fortunately only) a few MP3 files. Some have been corrupted such that the music plays fine but the following items have disappeared from the file headers/tags: Codec Bitrate F… --- ## [New colun for rating Musicmatch](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/new-colun-for-rating-musicmatch/46042)
**Author:** [@edupallaro](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/edupallaro)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2019, 10:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/new-colun-for-rating-musicmatch/46042 "2019-07-30T10:00:22Z")
Good Morning I've been a long time user of Musicmatch, but it's getting harder and harder to use it on a vital machine. I have a collection of thousands of mp3 and it would be impossible to assign a preference again. I… --- ## ["Tag - Filename" fails with M4A files](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-filename-fails-with-m4a-files/46035)
**Author:** [@TheFeelSage](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TheFeelSage)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2019, 6:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-filename-fails-with-m4a-files/46035 "2019-07-29T06:43:26Z")
When using "Tag - Filename" to bulk rename M4A files, it looks like MP3Tag puts a line separator before the extensions and the rename fails because Windows rejects the illegal characters. This issue is not present with o… --- ## [Brauche Hilfe für meine mp3 Verzeichniss Struktur!](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/brauche-hilfe-fur-meine-mp3-verzeichniss-struktur/46029)
**Author:** [@Totto](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Totto)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2019, 7:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/brauche-hilfe-fur-meine-mp3-verzeichniss-struktur/46029 "2019-07-28T19:14:43Z")
Hallo...ich bin neu hier und durch das Internet auf diese Community gestossen und glaube hier richtig zu sein!Ich habe schon seit Jahren ein Problem meine grosse MP3 Sammlung vernünftig zu taggen (ich rede hier von einer… --- ## [Multiple file selection based on genre](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-file-selection-based-on-genre/46022)
**Author:** [@Bains999](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Bains999)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2019, 4:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-file-selection-based-on-genre/46022 "2019-07-28T04:09:43Z")
Is there a way to specify a genre and file folder start and have MP3Tag enumerate all files that have that characteristic in that folder and in sub-folders? --- ## [PLEX and MP3TAG and multiple Genre](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/plex-and-mp3tag-and-multiple-genre/46021)
**Author:** [@Bains999](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Bains999)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/plex-and-mp3tag-and-multiple-genre/46021 "2019-07-27T21:59:43Z")
I am new to the notions of mp3 tags and PLEX. The further I investigate the more questions I have. PLEX allows multiple genre designations. MP3TAG seems to only allow one. Is there a way to set up the genre drop down… [Previous page](https://community.mp3tag.de/c/support/19.md?page=167) [Next page](https://community.mp3tag.de/c/support/19.md?page=169)