# Support

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## [Discogs search results window is blank](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discogs-search-results-window-is-blank/15799)

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**Author:** [@jazzop](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jazzop)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [June 20, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discogs-search-results-window-is-blank/15799 "2014-06-20T17:07:45Z")

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Everything was working fine until today. Now, when I select Tag Sources -\> discogs the pop-up window that displays the search results contains no text. However, each line in the arraylist appears to have some underlyin…

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## [Filename function in export configurations](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-function-in-export-configurations/15820)

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**Author:** [@aax](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/aax)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [June 19, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-function-in-export-configurations/15820 "2014-06-19T15:51:30Z")

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I can't figure out how to use it. The help says: but my file always ends up with the "Export file name" from the "Export" window (Mp3tag won't let me leave that field blank).

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## [YEAR extracting the TWO values](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-extracting-the-two-values/15824)

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**Author:** [@dcassidy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dcassidy)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 19, 2014, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-extracting-the-two-values/15824 "2014-06-19T14:10:24Z")

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I have quite a few MP3s with two values set against the YEAR tag. 3 views that show what I mean. Select MP3 file and in the Tag Panel in the year field the following is shown “2013\\2013-11-22” In the Extended Tags I c…

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## [$num within $Regexp has unexpected behaviour](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/num-within-regexp-has-unexpected-behaviour/15780)

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**Author:** [@dcassidy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dcassidy)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 19, 2014, 12:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/num-within-regexp-has-unexpected-behaviour/15780 "2014-06-19T12:57:56Z")

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Quite a simple scenario... $regexp('This is Track 16 from the album','^(?:.)(?\\d{2})(.?)$',$+{Track}) Returns 16 $num($regexp('This is Track 16 from the album','^(?:.)(?\\d{2})(.?)$',$+{Track}),3) Returns 016 …

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## [can i download synced lyrics for my album?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-i-download-synced-lyrics-for-my-album/15818)

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**Author:** [@rama](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rama)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 19, 2014, 2:32am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-i-download-synced-lyrics-for-my-album/15818 "2014-06-19T02:32:58Z")

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Hi is there a script to downlaod synced lyrics for my albums? under Web Sources Scripts , i found many scripts to download UNSYNCEDLYRICS but i did not found a script to download synced lyrics is there a way to do it…

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## [media player](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/media-player/15819)

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**Author:** [@fla-ts](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fla-ts)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [June 18, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/media-player/15819 "2014-06-18T14:56:47Z")

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Dear, I’m new here. I use a Synology DS114 to play a SqueezeboxTouth from Logitec Media Server music. I own quite a few compilations which various artists are. Now I want a song to see a picture before I have now inst…

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## [Identify Album](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/identify-album/15813)

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**Author:** [@mystik1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mystik1)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 16, 2014, 12:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/identify-album/15813 "2014-06-16T12:05:49Z")

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I am having trouble with anything finding the 1999 Backfire album by ACDC. Also, disccogss results always have blank entries. I am sure the latter has already been reported. Any ideas on how I can get this album ident…

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## [M4a comment truncated](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/m4a-comment-truncated/15811)

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**Author:** [@whitesocks](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/whitesocks)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 15, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/m4a-comment-truncated/15811 "2014-06-15T20:17:34Z")

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Hi, I’ve been using mp3tag for years to organise my mp3 files and I trust it implicitly. I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered that mp3tag could also handle tagging in my m4a files. Unfortunately I did not noti…

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## [Slow Tag Writing over Network (Samba)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/slow-tag-writing-over-network-samba/15812)

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**Author:** [@Morphic](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Morphic)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 15, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/slow-tag-writing-over-network-samba/15812 "2014-06-15T17:33:03Z")

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Hi I have recently moved my music files to another machine which is on a EXT4 hard drive on a Linux system. I have the drive mounted in my windows 7 machine via SAMBA. When transferring files I get speeds around 80 MB/s…

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## [Filtering European ASCII characters](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filtering-european-ascii-characters/15805)

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**Author:** [@AMJF](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AMJF)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [June 15, 2014, 6:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filtering-european-ascii-characters/15805 "2014-06-15T06:24:30Z")

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I need to use the Filter to show only those artists that have European accents and umlauts (and so forth) in their names, but I don’t really want to do it one character at a time (I’m talking about the ISO-8859-1 standar…

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## [New To Tagging](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/new-to-tagging/15798)

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**Author:** [@artcal](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/artcal)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 11, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/new-to-tagging/15798 "2014-06-11T16:51:35Z")

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Hi! This is my first post. I’m a newbie to tagging but so far I love MP3TAG. Its simple and easy to use and what’s wonderful, if you make mistakes you can easily correct without losing everything you’ve done. I’m sti…

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## [Missing column that shows in explorer](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/missing-column-that-shows-in-explorer/15797)

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**Author:** [@scottgutman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/scottgutman)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 10, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/missing-column-that-shows-in-explorer/15797 "2014-06-10T16:23:31Z")

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I am having trouble finding a way to display the column “#”. I see this column in windows explorer. I searched the forums, but the “#” in the search input causes search failure. Is there a way to make this column disp…

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## [It's possible to Convert a file .cue to .m3u ??](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/its-possible-to-convert-a-file-cue-to-m3u/15791)

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**Author:** [@DjDiabolik](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DjDiabolik)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [June 10, 2014, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/its-possible-to-convert-a-file-cue-to-m3u/15791 "2014-06-10T15:02:46Z")

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I have a long file .mp3 mixed by me… for make a split track cd audio (when i burn using imgburn for example) i have simply created this .cue file: FILE "Dj Diabolik - JumpStyle Vol.1.mp3" MP3 REM FILE-DECODED-SIZE 75:43…

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## [How to convert Track Tag from end of filename?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-convert-track-tag-from-end-of-filename/15796)

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**Author:** [@globetrotting](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/globetrotting)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 10, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-convert-track-tag-from-end-of-filename/15796 "2014-06-10T14:22:30Z")

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Hi, I read a lot, but couldn’t find a solution to extract the Track Tag from filenames of different formats, where the only common rule is, that the track numbers are the last two digits before the common extension .mp3…

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## [Converting APE to ID3?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converting-ape-to-id3/4808)

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**Author:** [@Ciolouse](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ciolouse)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [June 6, 2014, 5:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converting-ape-to-id3/4808 "2014-06-06T05:39:34Z")

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Hello all, Thanks a lot for this really good software !!! But can anyone tell me how to convert tag APE to ID3 ? Thanks ! \[:music:\]

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## [Action - Album Art import through regular expression](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-album-art-import-through-regular-expression/15787)

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**Author:** [@chicmatt](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chicmatt)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 4, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-album-art-import-through-regular-expression/15787 "2014-06-04T21:28:15Z")

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Hello. I’d like to make an action that import Album Art from a file. Each folder has a cover file with one of the following names. folder.jpg folder.png cover.jpg front.jpg How can I import it regardless of the fi…

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## [aimp3 play](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/aimp3-play/15777)

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**Author:** [@chicmatt](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chicmatt)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 4, 2014, 2:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/aimp3-play/15777 "2014-06-04T14:01:35Z")

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In the context menu (right-click menu\], I’d like to add Aimp3 play, but both of the following don’t work. D:\\Program Files\\AIMP3\\AIMP3.exe /ADD\_PLAY “%\_filename\_ext%” D:\\Program Files\\AIMP3\\AIMP3.exe /ADD\_PLAY “%\_pa…

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## [Action - Filename rename and sort](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-filename-rename-and-sort/15779)

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**Author:** [@samitnair](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/samitnair)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 2, 2014, 4:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-filename-rename-and-sort/15779 "2014-06-02T04:21:25Z")

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Hi New to MP3 taging and sorting stuffs...I searched different posts but the posts are a further confusing me and I am requesting for help... I have a dump folder where I get to store all the MP3's with this filename C…

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## [Tricky Filename to Tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tricky-filename-to-tag/15760)

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**Author:** [@samitnair](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/samitnair)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [June 2, 2014, 3:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tricky-filename-to-tag/15760 "2014-06-02T03:37:03Z")

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Hi everyone, Went through the forum for almost an hour and did find many suggestions regarding how to use filename - tag conversions…which also made me think if my question is a bit stupid anyways herez what i wanna ac…

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## [Change file name](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-file-name/15773)

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**Author:** [@nchuijg](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/nchuijg)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [June 1, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-file-name/15773 "2014-06-01T00:26:51Z")

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I have more then 13000 audio files, for a playout program, they use at the end ~ and then like 2.45 that’s the time in seconds from the real end of the file to start the next file. Now a want to use a new playout progra…

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## [Triming last 3 chars of a filename](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/triming-last-3-chars-of-a-filename/15772)

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**Author:** [@dbenyakar](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dbenyakar)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [May 31, 2014, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/triming-last-3-chars-of-a-filename/15772 "2014-05-31T14:28:53Z")

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Hi I’ve searched a solution for my problem but could not find any. I have a large number of mp3 files were the filename has the track number added to them, some at the beginning of the filename and some at the end. Im…

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## [Generating a date from Year/Week (Day Of Week)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/generating-a-date-from-year-week-day-of-week/15765)

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**Author:** [@dcassidy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dcassidy)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [May 30, 2014, 7:16am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/generating-a-date-from-year-week-day-of-week/15765 "2014-05-30T07:16:00Z")

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I have a situation where the only date related information in an MP3 tag is a 4/6 charater field (or part thereof) indicating the Year and Week number. I would like to be able to generate an ISO Date from this informat…

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## [Discnumber, Track Number](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discnumber-track-number/15770)

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**Author:** [@auldyin](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/auldyin)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 29, 2014, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discnumber-track-number/15770 "2014-05-29T15:18:20Z")

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I would prefer to number my tracks as follows: Use Discnumber (1,2...) and Track Number (01,02,)........................combined as 101 Title1 102 Title2 103 Title3 201 TitleX 202 TitleY 212 TitleZZZ Being hop…

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## [Extended Tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extended-tags/15769)

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**Author:** [@auldyin](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/auldyin)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [May 29, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extended-tags/15769 "2014-05-29T14:36:36Z")

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I have recently inherited a bunch of MP3 files and some of the tagging leaves much to be desired. In particular, some of the files contain some of or all of the the following Extended Tags: CONTENT GROUP, CONTENTGROUP,…

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## [Filter expression "IS NOT" working ;)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-expression-is-not-working/15768)

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**Author:** [@epig](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/epig)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 27, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-expression-is-not-working/15768 "2014-05-27T23:09:05Z")

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Love the filter expressions - very powerful, but I haven’t been able to use the NOT expression with IS, ie. %artist% IS “Haydn” works, but %artist% IS NOT “Haydn” just returns everything, when there are a few Haydn entri…

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## [Make a folder and copy files to it](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/make-a-folder-and-copy-files-to-it/15763)

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**Author:** [@Mike123](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Mike123)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [May 27, 2014, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/make-a-folder-and-copy-files-to-it/15763 "2014-05-27T18:23:46Z")

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I have a question about making a new folder and copy a few files to it. I can’t find it in this forum. This is what i want. I have a couple of folders with about 30 files. Example: 101-artist\_1-title.mp3 102-artist2…

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## [Action to delete files](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-to-delete-files/15767)

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**Author:** [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [May 27, 2014, 8:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-to-delete-files/15767 "2014-05-27T08:20:50Z")

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Is there any Action type that will delete a file? I need this to delete the temporary files that I create by Export and import by ‘Import text file’. Thanks.

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## [Change tag from tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-tag-from-tag/15740)

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**Author:** [@tigerjack89](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tigerjack89)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [May 26, 2014, 9:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-tag-from-tag/15740 "2014-05-26T09:41:06Z")

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Hi there. It’s my first post so… sorry if I’m doing something wrong :slight\_smile: I’m experimenting with tag and I have a question for you. I have some artist tags arranged in this way. artist1; artist2; artist3 and…

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## [Geotagging?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/geotagging/15764)

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**Author:** [@wruffner](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/wruffner)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [May 25, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/geotagging/15764 "2014-05-25T14:05:59Z")

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I’m doing more field recording and would like to have the resulting files geotagged so they function similarly to geotagged photo files. That is, so that they can be mapped by data (collected via GPS or other map source)…

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## [Copy cover to new MP3 bug?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-cover-to-new-mp3-bug/15759)

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**Author:** [@AMJF](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AMJF)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [May 25, 2014, 10:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-cover-to-new-mp3-bug/15759 "2014-05-25T10:06:30Z")

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I think I may have noticed a bug when it comes to copying a cover from an existing MP3 with tags to a new untagged MP3 when using the Copy Cover command. Sometimes I will need to add or replace an MP3 in one of my own a…

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