# Support

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## [Export Script with $if statement](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-script-with-if-statement/15978)

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**Author:** [@rko31415](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rko31415)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 8, 2014, 9:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-script-with-if-statement/15978 "2014-08-08T09:40:27Z")

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I store “listened to” information in the track field %track%=zzzz or qqqq means I have listened to the podcast or it’s in the queue. (this is due to a limitation of Copernic which I use to index my collection) I want to…

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## [I want to separate two words with Space after comma](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-want-to-separate-two-words-with-space-after-comma/15961)

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**Author:** [@Giri\_Babu](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Giri_Babu)\
**Replies:** 15\
**Last updated:** [August 6, 2014, 6:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/i-want-to-separate-two-words-with-space-after-comma/15961 "2014-08-06T18:26:38Z")

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Case: S.P. Balu,Chitra In the above case I want to separate those two artists with Space like below S.P. Balu, Chitra is there any option to do that?

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## [Help with RegExp](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-regexp/15969)

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**Author:** [@cldcp00](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cldcp00)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 5, 2014, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-regexp/15969 "2014-08-05T15:18:14Z")

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I am new to Regular Expression but just cannot get my expression to do exactly what I want. I have a list music which lists “artist - Track” but sometimes it will be formatted like 0001 - Mozart - Divertimento in D I…

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## [Inconsistent RegEx Behavior Replace v. Format Value](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/inconsistent-regex-behavior-replace-v-format-value/15971)

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**Author:** [@rko31415](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rko31415)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 5, 2014, 3:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/inconsistent-regex-behavior-replace-v-format-value/15971 "2014-08-05T15:17:32Z")

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title = 416 5 Conspiracy Theories idea is to change this to 416 05 Conspiracy Theories except where album = Skeptoid Replace w. Regular Expression: ^(\\s?\\b\[0-9\]+?\\b\\s?\[.-\]?\\s?)(\\b\[0-9\]\\b) --\> \\10\\2 Result: 416 05 Cons…

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## [Subtitle tag is populated on mp3tag but is empty in explorer/itunes](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/subtitle-tag-is-populated-on-mp3tag-but-is-empty-in-explorer-itunes/15974)

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**Author:** [@normanzack](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/normanzack)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 5, 2014, 8:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/subtitle-tag-is-populated-on-mp3tag-but-is-empty-in-explorer-itunes/15974 "2014-08-05T08:40:00Z")

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Hey guys am new here and have been looking around but can’t seem to find any topic regarding this. On mp3tag itself, the subtitle column is populated but however on explorer or itunes the subtitle/description is empty. …

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## [Action to load JPG with varied filename?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-to-load-jpg-with-varied-filename/15973)

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**Author:** [@sigrun](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sigrun)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 5, 2014, 4:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-to-load-jpg-with-varied-filename/15973 "2014-08-05T04:05:31Z")

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I title album art JPGs with the image size, for example, if the image is a square I would just do: Artwork.640.jpg If the image isn’t square I’ll do: Artwork.640x570.jpg Can I create an action to catch the jpg that b…

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## [How can I copy year from Album to Year field](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-can-i-copy-year-from-album-to-year-field/15965)

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**Author:** [@Giri\_Babu](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Giri_Babu)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 2, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-can-i-copy-year-from-album-to-year-field/15965 "2014-08-02T20:06:44Z")

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I have lots of albums with year at the end as showed below… album (year) Ex. Happy Days (1994) Now I want to copy the year in to “year” field, which one contained the end of every album in between parenthesis.

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## [Tags not shown at WINAMP](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-not-shown-at-winamp/15959)

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**Author:** [@slyboogaloo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/slyboogaloo)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [August 2, 2014, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-not-shown-at-winamp/15959 "2014-08-02T14:55:28Z")

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Sorry, tried for helping at forums, maybe there are answers in german, don’t know… Testing a folder with 90 mp3…after saving tags, WINAMP shows the file information correctly for about the half of files and not for the …

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## [any way to use mp3tag to create a copy list from m3u](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/any-way-to-use-mp3tag-to-create-a-copy-list-from-m3u/15945)

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**Author:** [@wakey05](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/wakey05)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [July 31, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/any-way-to-use-mp3tag-to-create-a-copy-list-from-m3u/15945 "2014-07-31T19:45:19Z")

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hi Just new to having a portable music player (pmp), so I was thinking how good it would be to be able to take an mp3tag generated playlist (m3u) that I’m playing on the home system and turn it into a copy mechanism tha…

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## [Removing +](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing/15960)

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**Author:** [@mgrobler](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mgrobler)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 31, 2014, 2:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing/15960 "2014-07-31T14:09:56Z")

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Hi I am very confussed and have tried verythign but for the love of me I cannot work out how to remove a + from my file name. IE my Filename is A+Gift+of+Love+feat+Fedde+La+Grange. All I want to do is use the tag functi…

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## [Updating tags without changing file time-stamp?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/updating-tags-without-changing-file-time-stamp/15957)

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**Author:** [@Greybeard49](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Greybeard49)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 31, 2014, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/updating-tags-without-changing-file-time-stamp/15957 "2014-07-31T13:23:04Z")

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Has this been discussed yet? I would like to update tags without changing the file’s time-stamp but cannot find a setting to do so. Thanks! EDIT: OK, I found a “work-around” for this problem. I’ve created a new colum…

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## [Convert text file to tag help](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-text-file-to-tag-help/15535)

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**Author:** [@scott967](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/scott967)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [July 30, 2014, 10:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-text-file-to-tag-help/15535 "2014-07-30T10:46:04Z")

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I am having trouble figuring out how to use the text file to tag feature. I have mp3 files with ID3 tags (created by other software) and APE tags (created by mp3tag). The tags aren’t identical (by design). I used the …

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## [reverse logic?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reverse-logic/15951)

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**Author:** [@ForSSound](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ForSSound)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 30, 2014, 6:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reverse-logic/15951 "2014-07-30T06:57:52Z")

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Hi There, I made a Tag-Tag action. Album="AM013\_Light Speed" Album="AMB15\_kara" Album=“ATMOS2\_French Docs” Field Discnumber $regexp(%Album%,(\\u{1,3})(\\d{1,4}),$1$2) The data I want to keep is “AM013” however the …

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## [Updating Pone Script](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/updating-pone-script/15952)

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**Author:** [@Beluna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Beluna)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 29, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/updating-pone-script/15952 "2014-07-29T16:56:11Z")

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Where within the script would I add “saynewline” to Note / Companies.etc I combine Credits, Notes & Companies all in the Credit field. I can manually add it to each src but would like to do it in the script to update a…

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## [delete unwanted format strings](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-unwanted-format-strings/15950)

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**Author:** [@baxterdogg](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/baxterdogg)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 29, 2014, 11:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-unwanted-format-strings/15950 "2014-07-29T11:17:22Z")

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I have over time created format strings in the drop down list for tag-filename or filename- tag that have errors in them (extra spaces, expressions etc) How can I delete the erroneous ones and keep the one’s I use?

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## [Can I copy and \*append\* tag data to another field ?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-i-copy-and-append-tag-data-to-another-field/15949)

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**Author:** [@pastic](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pastic)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 29, 2014, 9:11am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-i-copy-and-append-tag-data-to-another-field/15949 "2014-07-29T09:11:55Z")

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Hello, I searched the forums and found this action example for copying data from one field to another (in this case AA to A): Action type: Format value Field: ALBUMARTIST Format string: %artist% Is there a way I could…

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## [Conditional tagging involving years in range](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conditional-tagging-involving-years-in-range/15947)

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**Author:** [@Harakiri](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Harakiri)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 28, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conditional-tagging-involving-years-in-range/15947 "2014-07-28T17:41:31Z")

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Good evening! I want to create a if function to populate %comment% with data if %year% ranges from 1980 to 1989. I tried to learn my way unsuccessfully… …example follows… Action type: Format value Field: COMMENT Form…

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## [Shorten year field?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/shorten-year-field/15914)

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**Author:** [@krissasaur](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/krissasaur)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 26, 2014, 9:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/shorten-year-field/15914 "2014-07-26T09:05:07Z")

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I searched the forum and couldn’t find anything like this. Anyway, I would like an action that can remove the ends of dates? Some songs I have are named “20130515” or sometimes it is some long thing like “2013-05-15T07:…

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## [Tag Is populating with \\\\ since updating to pone v4.4](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-is-populating-with-since-updating-to-pone-v4-4/15936)

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**Author:** [@Beluna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Beluna)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 23, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-is-populating-with-since-updating-to-pone-v4-4/15936 "2014-07-23T15:46:26Z")

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strange… since updating to v4.4, i’m getting \\ instead of ; quotations. Sample page: http://www.discogs.com/Andra%C3%A9-Crouch-…release/1910552 tag comes out as so (notice the \\ marks): Backing Vocals: Alphanette Sil…

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## [Configure Notes with Credit Field (pone script v4.4)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/configure-notes-with-credit-field-pone-script-v4-4/15927)

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**Author:** [@Beluna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Beluna)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 23, 2014, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/configure-notes-with-credit-field-pone-script-v4-4/15927 "2014-07-23T15:11:57Z")

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Where in the pone script do i configure Notes & Companies to drop down a line: Currently it shows like this: Producer, Performer, Engineer: Paul Hardcastle Written-By: Paul Hardcastle: (Track: 1, 3 To 8)Notes: Record…

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## [match 3 lines keep line 2 and 3](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/match-3-lines-keep-line-2-and-3/15933)

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**Author:** [@ForSSound](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ForSSound)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 23, 2014, 1:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/match-3-lines-keep-line-2-and-3/15933 "2014-07-23T13:26:22Z")

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Hi There, Below is a example of the metadata I’m trying to reformat. In this case I would like to keep line 2 and 3. I would like it to work whatever is written. I found a site that let me test the regular expression…

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## [new update - help doesnt work](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/new-update-help-doesnt-work/15930)

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**Author:** [@sogalitno](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sogalitno)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 23, 2014, 2:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/new-update-help-doesnt-work/15930 "2014-07-23T02:09:28Z")

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upgraded to newest version all kinds of problems all my config has disappeared. but worse, cant get to HELP file - click on HELP and there is nothing but a blank notepad window. uninstalled, and reinstalled twice. s…

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## [Conditional copy part of tag to another tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conditional-copy-part-of-tag-to-another-tag/14812)

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**Author:** [@ForSSound](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ForSSound)\
**Replies:** 20\
**Last updated:** [July 22, 2014, 10:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conditional-copy-part-of-tag-to-another-tag/14812 "2014-07-22T10:09:23Z")

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Hi There, I would like to make a action which copy a part of a tag to another tag: The conditions are: UPPERCASE words and words between "," examples: %comment% = "LC 13357ATMOSPHERE ETHNIC POP, UP, adventure, RAPIDE…

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## [non capital](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/non-capital/15913)

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**Author:** [@ForSSound](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ForSSound)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [July 22, 2014, 9:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/non-capital/15913 "2014-07-22T09:50:27Z")

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Hi There, I would like to keep the non capitol words from the first Line the regexpr encounter. POP ROCK, CORPORATE, MID,peaceful, Reflection, landscape, MEDIUM,calme, Reflexion, landscape, would become peaceful, R…

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## [Assign track number to discnumber](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/assign-track-number-to-discnumber/15926)

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**Author:** [@ewaspen](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ewaspen)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 22, 2014, 4:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/assign-track-number-to-discnumber/15926 "2014-07-22T04:49:38Z")

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For a certain audiobook player I use, it would be helpful to make the discnumber the same as the track number. Is there a way to make discnumber = track number?

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## [Removing last two words of title](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-last-two-words-of-title/15924)

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**Author:** [@merik](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/merik)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 21, 2014, 12:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-last-two-words-of-title/15924 "2014-07-21T00:55:03Z")

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I have a bunch of MP3 files where the title field ends with “128 bit”. So one title would be “Engine Sound - 128 bit”. I want to automatically remove the " - 128 bit" part, how can I do that?

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## [BPM detector software on Mac and BPM tag problem](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bpm-detector-software-on-mac-and-bpm-tag-problem/15923)

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**Author:** [@aurawindsurfing](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/aurawindsurfing)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [July 20, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bpm-detector-software-on-mac-and-bpm-tag-problem/15923 "2014-07-20T19:27:30Z")

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Hello! I have recently discovered your software and have to say it is what i needed big big thank you to all of you guys developing it! Thank you! I have run into one small problem as I use a BPM detector it saves BPM …

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## [Action (I think)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-i-think/15920)

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**Author:** [@auldyin](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/auldyin)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 19, 2014, 2:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-i-think/15920 "2014-07-19T14:00:37Z")

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Hi, How can I bring the following change about to only the ARTIST Field: The Troggs -\> Troggs, The and Smiths, the -\> Smiths, The I have been messing about for ages with little to no success. Thanks

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## [Replacing "//"](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing/15915)

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**Author:** [@mapeterson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mapeterson)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 18, 2014, 7:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing/15915 "2014-07-18T19:07:46Z")

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I realize this is a simple request and I have tried several different approaches. The frustrating thing is this use to work flawlessly until I upgraded to the current version (2.61a), I was several revisions out of date…

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## [Column "Tag" has ID3v2.3 (ID3v1 ID3v2.3 APEv2)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/column-tag-has-id3v2-3-id3v1-id3v2-3-apev2/15918)

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**Author:** [@wakey05](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/wakey05)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 18, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/column-tag-has-id3v2-3-id3v1-id3v2-3-apev2/15918 "2014-07-18T17:43:55Z")

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hi I have an mp3 album that shows the mp3tag “Tag” column as per the topic title and I’d like it to be the same as my other albums e.g. ID3v2.3 (ID3v1 ID3v2.3), assuming that is the right standard to aim for. I know ID3…

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