# Support

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## [Filter reverse](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-reverse/16625)

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**Author:** [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [February 25, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-reverse/16625 "2015-02-25T19:26:01Z")

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Hello I would like to know, if there is a way to reverse filter search? That would work not like reverse selection? This is what I mean: 1\] I load all the files into Mp3tag 2\] I put into filter "ABC" 3\] I see a list…

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## [Album not found Amazon.co.uk](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-not-found-amazon-co-uk/16628)

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**Author:** [@mikeared](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mikeared)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 25, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/album-not-found-amazon-co-uk/16628 "2015-02-25T19:13:15Z")

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Hello All, I’m trying to tag some MP3’s using amazon.co.uk but when I search using criteria ‘Pridefest’ (which is the album’s name), my search cannot be found. I find this really strange as I can see the album on amazo…

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## [Advanced filtering](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/advanced-filtering/16597)

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**Author:** [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [February 25, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/advanced-filtering/16597 "2015-02-25T16:54:33Z")

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Hello I have a new advanced search to do, only partly related to my previous one http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?showtopic=19577 I need to filter all files to only those, which have the same beginning in the TITTLE t…

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## [artwork issue](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artwork-issue/16626)

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**Author:** [@djeurotraxx](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djeurotraxx)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 25, 2015, 5:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artwork-issue/16626 "2015-02-25T05:22:42Z")

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So initially I thought it was the pone mod giving me trouble with artwork not being displayed, but I since tried getting the artwork through the built in discogs sources and same result. Any ideas? Why would it stop wo…

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## [Genre tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-tag/16611)

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**Author:** [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [February 24, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-tag/16611 "2015-02-24T21:27:07Z")

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Hello I would like to report a bug about genre field in tag panel The thing is, that I don’t use names like “Gospel” or “Gothic Rock”. I use numbers- and every number means not genre but a mood or usefulness \[for examp…

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## [Multi sequential assigment images / cover / jpgs join to mp3  ?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multi-sequential-assigment-images-cover-jpgs-join-to-mp3/16618)

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**Author:** [@donvitomarco](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/donvitomarco)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [February 22, 2015, 4:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multi-sequential-assigment-images-cover-jpgs-join-to-mp3/16618 "2015-02-22T16:49:12Z")

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Dear all, I am happy with using MP3tag since some years. Maybe my search was not good enough, but I will try to do it like this. I often make my own (mini) MP3 songs. For each song I like to assign an own image cover. …

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## [Applied an action in mp3tag but not showing on hard drive?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/applied-an-action-in-mp3tag-but-not-showing-on-hard-drive/16615)

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**Author:** [@php111](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/php111)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [February 21, 2015, 7:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/applied-an-action-in-mp3tag-but-not-showing-on-hard-drive/16615 "2015-02-21T19:05:56Z")

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Hello! I posted this on a Windows forum, but honestly I should of posted on this forum instead. Below you will see my post and I am doing a copy/paste. The action that was done: Format value Action (quick) TITLE St…

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## [Question Regarding Mass Tagging + Write Error](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/question-regarding-mass-tagging-write-error/16612)

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**Author:** [@SoTiredOfRegistering](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/SoTiredOfRegistering)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [February 21, 2015, 6:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/question-regarding-mass-tagging-write-error/16612 "2015-02-21T06:45:21Z")

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Hello, I’m mass tagging about 85,000 files; well, most of them already have tags, but apparently not the kind of tags that work, c’est la vie. I realize it’ll be clunky and bad and most of them will use the track title …

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## [Is there an Action %ask% capability?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-there-an-action-ask-capability/16593)

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**Author:** [@phossler](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/phossler)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [February 20, 2015, 1:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-there-an-action-ask-capability/16593 "2015-02-20T13:07:32Z")

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I have an action to trim a number of characters from the front of a Title (My) Problem is the number of characters varies and I have to edit the action statement For ex – this will delete 4 char: $right(%title%,$sub($…

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## [How to delete all album art images?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-delete-all-album-art-images/16601)

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**Author:** [@Fredo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Fredo)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 19, 2015, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-delete-all-album-art-images/16601 "2015-02-19T12:51:36Z")

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Hi: I have a large audio collection. Each track (in FLAC format) contains the CD cover / album art image in a tag. At this time I want to save space by storing the album art only in the album folder, not in each track. …

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## [Put "The" in front in the Title](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/put-the-in-front-in-the-title/16610)

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**Author:** [@carstencoach](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/carstencoach)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [February 18, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/put-the-in-front-in-the-title/16610 "2015-02-18T16:59:18Z")

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Hej Everybody. I hope you can help me, cause I’ve got a lot of files to rename and don’t have a lot of time to do it. I have already found a solution for putting “The” in front of artist. Now I need a way to put “The”…

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## [Replacing Empty Genre Fields with a new Genre](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-empty-genre-fields-with-a-new-genre/16608)

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**Author:** [@KLD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/KLD)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 18, 2015, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-empty-genre-fields-with-a-new-genre/16608 "2015-02-18T14:47:15Z")

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Love this program, but I need to figure out how to replace empty Genre’s with new ones. For example, I have 200 mp3’s with nothing in the genre, and I want to insert “Country”. I don’t want to type this 200 times.

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## [Advanced filtering](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/advanced-filtering/16590)

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**Author:** [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)\
**Replies:** 16\
**Last updated:** [February 18, 2015, 10:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/advanced-filtering/16590 "2015-02-18T10:21:14Z")

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Hello I would like to know if there is a way to find files with title tag bearing resemblance to album tag For example, I would like to find a file with tags like these: TITLE: jklmnop qrstuv 12345 ALBUM: abcde fghij…

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## [Add Cover File Dialog Question](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-cover-file-dialog-question/16603)

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**Author:** [@pcook911](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pcook911)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 18, 2015, 5:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-cover-file-dialog-question/16603 "2015-02-18T05:52:11Z")

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When I first downloaded and installed Mp3tag, early 2.6 version I believe, when I went to add a cover by right clicking in the cover art area in the tag panel the dialog that popped up always defaulted to what I believe …

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## [Filter for COMMENT starts with 0 (the number)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-comment-starts-with-0-the-number/15502)

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**Author:** [@DHoude](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DHoude)\
**Replies:** 16\
**Last updated:** [February 18, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-for-comment-starts-with-0-the-number/15502 "2015-02-18T00:06:24Z")

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I am trying to make a filter for COMMENT starts with 0 (the number). I have numeric keys in my Comments field and need to remove all the 0s that I added before the key, before I can rescan after updating my other scannin…

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## [Error connecting to server: http//www.discogs.com](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/error-connecting-to-server-http-www-discogs-com/16594)

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**Author:** [@Cunick](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Cunick)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [February 17, 2015, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/error-connecting-to-server-http-www-discogs-com/16594 "2015-02-17T14:55:21Z")

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As the title suggests, I can’t connect to Discogs or any other site (eg Amazon). I’ve authenticated with Discogs a few months ago and everything was working fine until today. I’ve disabled my firewall but still can’t co…

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## [Trim with regular expression based on delimiter?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trim-with-regular-expression-based-on-delimiter/9631)

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**Author:** [@johnhardyiv](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/johnhardyiv)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 16, 2015, 1:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trim-with-regular-expression-based-on-delimiter/9631 "2015-02-16T13:09:34Z")

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Hi, trying to tim a collection of song titles that have duplicate different information after a front slash as seen below: Breaking Ties \[A&b Analogue Haven Mix\]/A&b Analogue Haven Mix Want to trim the ‘/A&b Analogue…

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## [Replace with Reg Exp - not working on field with " \[ \] "](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-with-reg-exp-not-working-on-field-with/16596)

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**Author:** [@DHoude](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DHoude)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [February 13, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-with-reg-exp-not-working-on-field-with/16596 "2015-02-13T21:38:37Z")

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Hello, I am trying to replace " \[Single\] " with " ". But the Replace with regular expression does not seem to be working on this item. I am using this on the TITLE field. I did mean to leave the spaces between the " "s.…

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## [Need to move text between two characters to a different field, while also removing the brackets](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-to-move-text-between-two-characters-to-a-different-field-while-also-removing-the-brackets/16592)

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**Author:** [@Kuram](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Kuram)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [February 13, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-to-move-text-between-two-characters-to-a-different-field-while-also-removing-the-brackets/16592 "2015-02-13T20:11:47Z")

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For example, lets say I have a title field written: 【Rock】Invented Song name I want to move the “Rock” text to the genre field, while removing “Rock” and the brackets from the title field. Normally this could be somew…

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## [Parse the file name](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/parse-the-file-name/16226)

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**Author:** [@Frank\_GC](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Frank_GC)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [February 10, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/parse-the-file-name/16226 "2015-02-10T20:44:26Z")

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Hello, This is my first attempt to use MP3Tag. I have music files in the form: Composer Title.mp3 e.g.: Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No\_3 in D minor, Op\_30 - 3\_ Finale (Alla breve)(1).mp3 The first proper noun is the …

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## [Replace two single quotes with one double quote](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-two-single-quotes-with-one-double-quote/14005)

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**Author:** [@ThurstonX](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ThurstonX)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [February 10, 2015, 9:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-two-single-quotes-with-one-double-quote/14005 "2015-02-10T09:18:26Z")

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Hi, all. Just finished beating my head against the wall for something trivial, so I thought I’d post in case someone else comes up against it. The scenario: I have an action that uses the FILENAME to create the TITLE …

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## [Fix File Name From Tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/fix-file-name-from-tags/16589)

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**Author:** [@mikeyb](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mikeyb)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [February 10, 2015, 8:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/fix-file-name-from-tags/16589 "2015-02-10T08:24:02Z")

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Hi all, If anyone can help me with this. Current file names are: 2002 020 - Creed My Sacrifice Artist and title tags are already correct, so I am trying to correct the file name to include the - whilst retaining that…

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## ["Filename - Tag" ICON](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-tag-icon/16549)

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**Author:** [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)\
**Replies:** 16\
**Last updated:** [February 10, 2015, 7:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-tag-icon/16549 "2015-02-10T07:25:49Z")

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Hello I would like to now is there is a way to use the “Filename - Tag”, so it would automatically change all “\_” characters from filename into “/” characters in the tag “title”? I would also like to use the icon “Tag …

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## [Newbie help](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/newbie-help/16577)

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**Author:** [@HarleyFasha](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/HarleyFasha)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [February 9, 2015, 12:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/newbie-help/16577 "2015-02-09T12:04:48Z")

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First… Sorry if this has been addressed elsewhere. I made a feeble attempt to look and did not find this issue. I am sure this is some simple issue that I, a newbie to MP3TAG, am doing wrong. I loaded my music direc…

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## [Setting the new default player question](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/setting-the-new-default-player-question/16586)

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**Author:** [@b8375629](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/b8375629)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 9, 2015, 7:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/setting-the-new-default-player-question/16586 "2015-02-09T07:09:17Z")

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I recently switched from Winamp to AIMP as my default player. I used to be able to select all the tracks in mp3tag, right mouse click them and hit play. Now it doesn’t see my new default player and is trying to open VL…

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## [Restoring Original "File Created" Timestamp](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/restoring-original-file-created-timestamp/16585)

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**Author:** [@absoluthotness86](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/absoluthotness86)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 8, 2015, 5:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/restoring-original-file-created-timestamp/16585 "2015-02-08T17:43:07Z")

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Last year, I had to move everything onto an external hard drive and ended up re-installing windows. I noticed a difference under “last modified” but for some reason I think I had the “Do not change file date/time when s…

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## [export my lyrics](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-my-lyrics/16584)

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**Author:** [@sylvain.dmde](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sylvain.dmde)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 8, 2015, 11:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-my-lyrics/16584 "2015-02-08T11:17:46Z")

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Hello, I would like to export my lyrics in a txt file. For this fact: Action: Export txt\_taglist : $filename(txt,utf-8)$loop(%\_path%)%unsyncedlyrics% $loopend() Export file name : %\_filename% (Lyrics).txt The proble…

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## [Convert multiple Tag Album names to Filename Album name](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-multiple-tag-album-names-to-filename-album-name/16572)

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**Author:** [@bollie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bollie)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [February 8, 2015, 8:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-multiple-tag-album-names-to-filename-album-name/16572 "2015-02-08T08:24:15Z")

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Sorry if question has been answered in posts, am newbie. I have made changes in Mp3tag to Album names and wish to transfer those new Album names to change the old album names in the file name. Is it possible to do it w…

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## [Tagging](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging/16575)

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**Author:** [@darkmyble2008](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/darkmyble2008)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 6, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging/16575 "2015-02-06T15:50:12Z")

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Hi to anyone out there… I apologise in advance if this topic/query has been covered before, I couldn’t find what I was looking for and perhaps through a lack of knowledge overlooked it in other topics. The Problem I’d l…

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## [Mass Retag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mass-retag/16573)

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**Author:** [@pajarhead](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pajarhead)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mass-retag/16573 "2015-02-05T20:22:49Z")

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I have a great many untagged mp3 files. These files are all in folders by artist name. What I am trying to do is to mass tag all these files with title and artist only. I have tried every possible way to do this. All…

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