# Support **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/c/support/19.md?page=257 [Latest](https://community.mp3tag.de/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.mp3tag.de/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/tags.md) **Page:** 258 --- ## [Replace "Various Artists" with 1 artist.](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-various-artists-with-1-artist/15596)
**Author:** [@orlandorivers](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/orlandorivers)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2014, 10:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-various-artists-with-1-artist/15596 "2014-03-17T10:54:20Z")
Hello, I’m just looking to make editing my mp3’s easier and faster than what I’m currently doing. (Duh) Ok, so I have most of my music with “Various” or “Various Artists” as the album artist name, even though most of my… --- ## [Removing numbers in the title](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-numbers-in-the-title/15588)
**Author:** [@Ridefort](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ridefort)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2014, 9:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-numbers-in-the-title/15588 "2014-03-17T09:52:23Z")
Goodmorning. I used the “Filename - Tag” option to fill in the "Title"field, however the files are numberd, like 01 Alpha ,02 Beta, 03 Gamma etc. Regretable the numbering als appears in the "Title"field. An other optio… --- ## [Need Help with duplicated data](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-help-with-duplicated-data/15595)
**Author:** [@bertiepr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bertiepr)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2014, 5:32am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-help-with-duplicated-data/15595 "2014-03-17T05:32:54Z")
Hi ! I need to change this: (TITLE field) Girl Gone Wide (Live) (Live) to this: (TITLE field) Girl Gone Wide (Live) I don’t know what command to use. REPLACE delete both (Live), but I only want th… --- ## [folder.jpg exists indicator](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/folder-jpg-exists-indicator/15587)
**Author:** [@risk](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/risk)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/folder-jpg-exists-indicator/15587 "2014-03-15T17:47:49Z")
For cover art, I generally have a folder.jpg in the album’s folder and I don’t include the cover tag in metadata. Is there a way from within mp3tag to see if folder.jpg exists? --- ## [Set pre-defined Tag remotely](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/set-pre-defined-tag-remotely/15179)
**Author:** [@DavidLago](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DavidLago)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2014, 4:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/set-pre-defined-tag-remotely/15179 "2014-03-15T16:54:20Z")
Hello all. That’s my first post here, gimme welcome :slight\_smile: I want to perform a bulk task operation to help me set genres automatically. I have a directory, where I keep my mp3, with almost 1 thousand albums. T… --- ## [File Order](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/file-order/15565)
**Author:** [@Philfy1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Philfy1)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2014, 8:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/file-order/15565 "2014-03-14T08:36:35Z")
I have changed the tags for Title, Album & Artist to all read track 01, track 02 etc up to track 24 where track is all the same file name and it starts playing at track 16 instead of tract 01 any ideas? --- ## [multiline field delimiter](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiline-field-delimiter/15578)
**Author:** [@tagmusing](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tagmusing)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2014, 11:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiline-field-delimiter/15578 "2014-03-13T11:15:37Z")
Hello, I’m new to mp3tag and tagging. At the moment I try to decide on a tagging method for my music files. While thinking about tag layout I stumbeld about the multiline tag field and I wonder how to separate values i… --- ## [Having trouble with regex in mp3tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/having-trouble-with-regex-in-mp3tag/15579)
**Author:** [@Dunnie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Dunnie)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2014, 5:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/having-trouble-with-regex-in-mp3tag/15579 "2014-03-13T05:59:52Z")
Hey guys … I am trying to do a replace … how can I search the following string for ‘\_w’ and find all the letters following that position until I hit a space ? Here is a sample string “Suspense\_1944-12-21\_BrightonStrang… --- ## [Importing Album Art and changing date](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/importing-album-art-and-changing-date/15577)
**Author:** [@Soroid](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Soroid)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2014, 5:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/importing-album-art-and-changing-date/15577 "2014-03-13T05:28:43Z")
This is the error message i get with certain files when i try to import album art Import cover from file “C:\\Music\\ToBeDone\\2014-03-11\\Thumbnail%title%.jpg” (Front Cover): File C:\\Music\\ToBeDone\\2014-03-11\\Thumbnail\[HD… --- ## [Viewing File Attributes in main view?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/viewing-file-attributes-in-main-view/15575)
**Author:** [@AMJF](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AMJF)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/viewing-file-attributes-in-main-view/15575 "2014-03-12T13:12:42Z")
Is there any way to customise columns in the main list view to show file attributes, as they would show up in WinExplorer, or is it a future addition? --- ## [Convert List Of Words To Mixed Case](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-list-of-words-to-mixed-case/8806)
**Author:** [@JPSiemer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JPSiemer)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-list-of-words-to-mixed-case/8806 "2014-03-11T16:02:26Z")
Say I have a list of words: “die|you|ugly|bastard|crap|blah|test|etc” And I want every instance of each word to be Capitol first letter and Lowercase the remaining letters. So “die you ugly bastard, crap, blah, test, e… --- ## [Randomly disappearing tags (using Mp3Tag and MediaMonkey)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/randomly-disappearing-tags-using-mp3tag-and-mediamonkey/6504)
**Author:** [@SerialK](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/SerialK)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2014, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/randomly-disappearing-tags-using-mp3tag-and-mediamonkey/6504 "2014-03-11T12:08:37Z")
Hi, i have a pretty well organised mp3 collection, but lately (about since i began using MediaMonkey) it occurs that tags randomly dissapear from files. Most often some tracks in one Album suddenly miss all information… --- ## [Install fails, Mp3tag installer says "The system doesn't have the minimum requirements"](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/install-fails-mp3tag-installer-says-the-system-doesnt-have-the-minimum-requirements/15571)
**Author:** [@n3mmr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/n3mmr)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2014, 9:32am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/install-fails-mp3tag-installer-says-the-system-doesnt-have-the-minimum-requirements/15571 "2014-03-10T09:32:41Z")
Install fails, Mp3tag installer says “The system doesn’t have the minimum requirements” I’m trying to install in a Windows XP (with all updates to the system, fully genuine and licensed) on a Virtualbox container on a S… --- ## [Generate Playlists By Genre (Having Multiple Values)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/generate-playlists-by-genre-having-multiple-values/15564)
**Author:** [@xavier.beltran](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/xavier.beltran)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2014, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/generate-playlists-by-genre-having-multiple-values/15564 "2014-03-07T17:02:28Z")
Hi, I use AMG to tag my files and therefore Genre can have multiple values. I use MP3Tag’s \\ to separate the values and it works fine (I filter-checked it via “$meta”) I would like to simulate the following actions wi… --- ## [8 digit tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/8-digit-tags/15559)
**Author:** [@espero1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/espero1)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2014, 12:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/8-digit-tags/15559 "2014-03-06T12:56:42Z")
Hello, I have a car radio which can display only the ID3v1 tags on two lines and 8 digits (caracters) each line. Could you please indicate me a procedure: to transform the MP3tags for all MP3 files of a folder in ID… --- ## [Padding Track Num, Scrambled.](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/padding-track-num-scrambled/11740)
**Author:** [@greyDrifter](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/greyDrifter)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/padding-track-num-scrambled/11740 "2014-03-06T01:04:47Z")
Does padding of the track numbers affect how explorer and mp3 players reads the track number?(Padding being the prefixing with zeros to have a specific number of characters.) I used ‘Bulk Rename Utility’ ver 2.7.1.2 to … --- ## [CD "Chapter" Solution?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cd-chapter-solution/15556)
**Author:** [@CC-GoE](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/CC-GoE)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cd-chapter-solution/15556 "2014-03-04T18:29:16Z")
HI! In some CDs, most often in classical music, we find a “chapter”, which characterizes the “theme”, for a bunch of tracks. For example, see here: http://www.discogs.com/Andrew-Lloyd-Webber…release/1448582 As you ca… --- ## [%albumartist% in F2K](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albumartist-in-f2k/15553)
**Author:** [@wolfsong](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/wolfsong)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/albumartist-in-f2k/15553 "2014-03-03T16:33:44Z")
I’ve been updating most of my ALBUMARTIST tags in mp3Tag but I noticed that I can’t see them in F2K. Any idea what field I should use? I’ve tried %albumartist%, %album artist% and %group% and all of them are empty. Than… --- ## [Open command prompt from Tools](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/open-command-prompt-from-tools/15551)
**Author:** [@degsie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/degsie)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2014, 2:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/open-command-prompt-from-tools/15551 "2014-03-03T02:33:16Z")
I have my mp3 files on a NAS and would like to open a Dos Command prompt in the directory of the track I’ve selected in MP3Tag. I added a new action and pointed to the exe in C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe. When I right cli… --- ## [Release time and date from filename](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/release-time-and-date-from-filename/15549)
**Author:** [@madramadra](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/madramadra)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/release-time-and-date-from-filename/15549 "2014-03-01T23:14:40Z")
Have a bunch of old podcasts, with no release time or date but with a filename of: 060210 - FILENAME.mp3 where 060210 is a date of 10th February 2006. I wish to know how I could go about batch processing these files s… --- ## [Move "& 2nd artist" from Artist to Title (Duet album)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-2nd-artist-from-artist-to-title-duet-album/13009)
**Author:** [@jackedgco](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jackedgco)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-2nd-artist-from-artist-to-title-duet-album/13009 "2014-02-28T18:35:53Z")
I have Tony Bennetts Duet II album and the Artist column contains two artists. The layout changes in two songs. I will provide another example to explain. It’s a bit complicated to explain so I’ll just give an example.… --- ## [Directory Renaming Recursively](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/directory-renaming-recursively/15542)
**Author:** [@CC-GoE](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/CC-GoE)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/directory-renaming-recursively/15542 "2014-02-27T16:59:05Z")
HI! I have a directory structure of: \[Root\]\\Artist\\Year - Album(tracks…) Example: \[Root\]\\Amy Winehouse\\2003 - Frank(tracks…) I want to replace: 2003 - Frank with: (2003) Frank or perhaps \[2003\] Frank Now I fou… --- ## [Absolutely Necessary Extended Tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/absolutely-necessary-extended-tags/15491)
**Author:** [@CC-GoE](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/CC-GoE)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2014, 10:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/absolutely-necessary-extended-tags/15491 "2014-02-27T10:21:15Z")
HI! We can manipulate extended tags, by right-clicking on MP3, and selecting Extended Tags. I would like to ask you: Do you know what are the absolutely minimum necessary tags fields in there? I mean, so that there w… --- ## [Importing Tag from old files](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/importing-tag-from-old-files/15543)
**Author:** [@Beluna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Beluna)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/importing-tag-from-old-files/15543 "2014-02-26T18:15:35Z")
I’ve seen a lot of discussion but no definitve solutions , but i’ll give it a shot. I want to import my tag from an old format (ex. vinyl recording) to a CD version. simply, i have the CD, and would like to import the … --- ## [Help Tools Not Working in Win 8.1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-tools-not-working-in-win-8-1/15528)
**Author:** [@dagrace](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dagrace)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-tools-not-working-in-win-8-1/15528 "2014-02-25T00:39:37Z")
I have been using mp3tag for some years on XP, Vista, and Win 7 (64) machines. Just got a new computer with Win 8.1 on it. Installed mp3 tag successfully. Used it for the first time and it works fine. I forgot one of the… --- ## [export cover to......](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-cover-to/15534)
**Author:** [@edwin1234](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/edwin1234)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2014, 11:27am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-cover-to/15534 "2014-02-24T11:27:47Z")
hi, my folderstructure is:Artist/Album/Tiltle so for example Anouk/Hotel Newyork/Girl there is an folder.jpg in the “Album” folder and i want to import that folder.jpg to the “Title” folder how can i do t… --- ## [Text File \> Lyrics tag (FLAC)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/text-file-lyrics-tag-flac/15532)
**Author:** [@d2b](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/d2b)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2014, 3:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/text-file-lyrics-tag-flac/15532 "2014-02-24T03:15:59Z")
I have a text file which I have placed in Notepad and/or Word 2010. The text file contains the lyrics for a song. When viewed in either of the above programs, the lyrics comprise 141 words in 5 paragraphs, just as they … --- ## [How to add Greatest Hits/Compilation Album](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-greatest-hits-compilation-album/15530)
**Author:** [@Red\_Headbanger](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Red_Headbanger)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2014, 12:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-greatest-hits-compilation-album/15530 "2014-02-24T00:53:35Z")
I have one MP3 song belonging to, let’s say, album1. The same artist of album1 put this song on album2, which is a compilation album of the greatest hits. Anyway, there’s one song belonging to many albums, and I don’t kn… --- ## [Part of column name in tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/part-of-column-name-in-tag/15521)
**Author:** [@tompad](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tompad)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [February 23, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/part-of-column-name-in-tag/15521 "2014-02-23T20:23:09Z")
Hi! First of all, thanks for a great program - I am using it to make playlists for a countryband here in Sweden :slight\_smile: I have one strange behavior of Mp3Tag however…or maybe its just me not fully understandin… --- ## [Files not seen in 64-bit Windows 7](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/files-not-seen-in-64-bit-windows-7/15525)
**Author:** [@rsilber](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rsilber)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 22, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/files-not-seen-in-64-bit-windows-7/15525 "2014-02-22T22:26:04Z")
I have used your program for years in Windows 7, 32-bit. I just installed it in a new Windows 7 64-bit machine. (I have the latest revision, 2.58.) My first command was to change directories, but no matter what directory… [Previous page](https://community.mp3tag.de/c/support/19.md?page=256) [Next page](https://community.mp3tag.de/c/support/19.md?page=258)