# Support

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/c/support/19.md?page=289

[Latest](https://community.mp3tag.de/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.mp3tag.de/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/tags.md)

**Page:** 290

---

## [Copy Album Artist field to Artist field IF empty](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-album-artist-field-to-artist-field-if-empty/13286)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@Mandah](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Mandah)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 14, 2012, 3:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-album-artist-field-to-artist-field-if-empty/13286 "2012-04-14T03:57:06Z")

</div>

Can someone create a script or something that will copy the Album Artist field into the Artist field IF it is empty I also want this vice versa (from Artist to Album Artist). Please indicate how to do this mp3tag becau…

---

## [Is it possible to insert a comment within the Album Field](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-it-possible-to-insert-a-comment-within-the-album-field/13322)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@Beluna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Beluna)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 13, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-it-possible-to-insert-a-comment-within-the-album-field/13322 "2012-04-13T15:40:46Z")

</div>

How can I batch insert a comment in the Album field for multiple Artists. i have about 120 - Singles/Maxi CD’s - which i would like to distinguish from the actual complete album by inserting a caption. Example: Album:…

---

## [Custom Action Trouble.](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/custom-action-trouble/13319)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@marcusj0015](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/marcusj0015)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 13, 2012, 11:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/custom-action-trouble/13319 "2012-04-13T11:38:07Z")

</div>

I’m trying to make an action that will change all fields to Mixed Case, but I want it to ignore “T.I.” when it’s found, how can I do this? Here’s my custom action: Filed: TITLE ARTIST ALBUM GENRE ALBUMARTIST UNSYNCEDLY…

---

## [Can't get various artist working on ipod?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-get-various-artist-working-on-ipod/13320)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@Shike](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Shike)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 13, 2012, 9:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cant-get-various-artist-working-on-ipod/13320 "2012-04-13T09:50:10Z")

</div>

Greetings, I’ve tried multiple things but none seem to work. I have some albums with various artists, and I apply a “Various Artist” tag to album artist and when I sync each artist is listed rather than “various”. I a…

---

## [a dash after the first word](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/a-dash-after-the-first-word/13313)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@evergreen1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/evergreen1)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 11, 2012, 5:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/a-dash-after-the-first-word/13313 "2012-04-11T05:50:05Z")

</div>

i have a few titles as this. 4shared -93 P Susheela i want to get it as \> 93 P Susheela i tried the following with no success filename filename conversion old pattern $1-$2 new pattern $2 not accepting by mp3…

---

## [MP3 tag editing](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-editing/13311)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@alisonhowlett](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/alisonhowlett)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 10, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-editing/13311 "2012-04-10T16:05:20Z")

</div>

Hello. Can someone please help me. I have some mp3 files but I’d like to remove track numbers from the ARTIST field. For example I’d like to change 01) Ed Sheeran to Ed Sheeran removing 01). Can anybody tell me how to …

---

## [Create a new sub directory](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/create-a-new-sub-directory/13310)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@Stain](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Stain)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 10, 2012, 1:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/create-a-new-sub-directory/13310 "2012-04-10T13:43:28Z")

</div>

i want to make a sub directory from the existing directory %album% Disc #%filename% to the following %album%\\Disc #%filename% can anyone help?

---

## [$mid(%\_file\_mod\_datetime%,5,4)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mid-file-mod-datetime-5-4/13307)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@Denis\_Bisson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Denis_Bisson)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 8, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mid-file-mod-datetime-5-4/13307 "2012-04-08T16:38:26Z")

</div>

Hi! This one is hard to report and I won't be surprised if you're not able to duplicate. But I'll do my best. I am using MP3TAG version 2.50. I am a very enthousiam user and I've made my 50$ donation for sure. But here …

---

## [Action to remove ID3v1 tags, and launch a tag sources file?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-to-remove-id3v1-tags-and-launch-a-tag-sources-file/7190)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@elinenbe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/elinenbe)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 7, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-to-remove-id3v1-tags-and-launch-a-tag-sources-file/7190 "2012-04-07T16:36:09Z")

</div>

I have a dedicated action that will do everything I’d like except for – well actually three things. Is it possible to create an action to remove all ID3v1 tags – I know I can do this via the GUI, but I’d love to have an…

---

## [MP3Tag doesn't read 'album artist' from MusicBee](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-doesnt-read-album-artist-from-musicbee/13300)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@jistme](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jistme)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 7, 2012, 6:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-doesnt-read-album-artist-from-musicbee/13300 "2012-04-07T06:22:29Z")

</div>

Hithere, Recently having switched as my favorite musicplayer from winamp\>mediamonkey\>foobar to MusicBee, and evaluating MP3Tag to possibly replace Tag&Rename, I run into a small but annoying problem. When I enter the n…

---

## [Need help for an action!](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-help-for-an-action/13292)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@Hornhaut68](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Hornhaut68)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [April 6, 2012, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-help-for-an-action/13292 "2012-04-06T13:41:50Z")

</div>

What I have to do, to delete all characters after the last “)” of the filename. For exemple: Artist - Song (Song-addition) (Mix)lalalala to Artist - Song (Song-addition) (Mix) or Artist - Song (Mix)lalalala to Artist …

---

## [identifying aacplus songs](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/identifying-aacplus-songs/13293)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@Seyss](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Seyss)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 6, 2012, 10:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/identifying-aacplus-songs/13293 "2012-04-06T10:53:50Z")

</div>

hello all, I’d like to identify songs in aacplus format. extension is still .aac like regular aac files. I tried the Codec column however it is confusing since some aacplus files are shown as “MPEG-4 AAC LC ADTS” and o…

---

## [How change columns ?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-change-columns/13294)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@davidin80](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/davidin80)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 5, 2012, 4:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-change-columns/13294 "2012-04-05T04:39:16Z")

</div>

Hello, I would like to complete columns TITLE and ARTIST from the filename. The latter is always of the form:% ARTIST% -% TITLE%. How exactly to put% TITLE% in the column TITLE? How exactly to put%% ARTIST ARTIST in …

---

## [Extended Tags - iTunes "Downloaded By"](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extended-tags-itunes-downloaded-by/13218)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@lankysob](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/lankysob)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [April 5, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extended-tags-itunes-downloaded-by/13218 "2012-04-05T02:54:53Z")

</div>

Using \[this thread\], I have already learned how to remove my iTunes email address using the Extended Tags in MP3Tag v2.50 (and have done so on a large number of tracks so far). Now I would also like to remove the "Downl…

---

## [Find and replace \\\\ separator in Tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-and-replace-separator-in-tags/13291)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@boborah](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/boborah)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [April 4, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-and-replace-separator-in-tags/13291 "2012-04-04T21:43:46Z")

</div>

I’ve been using dbPoweramp for several years to rip and tag CD’s to flac and have only just now come across a problem with the default tag separators \\ in ARTIST, ALBUMARTIST GENRE etc. Someone in the forum has kindly p…

---

## [Squares in the field tag using plugins www.discogs.com](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/squares-in-the-field-tag-using-plugins-www-discogs-com/13281)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@TGK](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TGK)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [April 4, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/squares-in-the-field-tag-using-plugins-www-discogs-com/13281 "2012-04-04T16:16:08Z")

</div>

Hi When using scripts and discogs.src ponemod to search for information on the site in some fields www.discogs.com tags - particularly in the field “DISCOGS\_NOTES” boxes appear here is an example : http://saveimg.ru/pi…

---

## [Track tags not being read](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-tags-not-being-read/13280)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@Tricky](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Tricky)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 3, 2012, 10:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-tags-not-being-read/13280 "2012-04-03T10:06:32Z")

</div>

I have come across a strange issue. I have ripped the tracks using variable bit rate and then had them encoded as MP3 files with the tag information saved in the file. I then edit them with mp3tag to make sure that all…

---

## [Tagging wrong title](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-wrong-title/13285)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@zohan](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/zohan)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 3, 2012, 6:11am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-wrong-title/13285 "2012-04-03T06:11:03Z")

</div>

I am new to this but had the program working correcly at first, then all of a sudden when i pick the correct song title from the list it will show up as the wrong title in the program, it usually shows up as the first so…

---

## [No cover art shown under wine](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/no-cover-art-shown-under-wine/11086)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@W.alter](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/W.alter)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 2, 2012, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/no-cover-art-shown-under-wine/11086 "2012-04-02T19:15:40Z")

</div>

I’m using Mp3tag v2.46c under wine 1.3.5-1. Everything is fine so far except that Mp3tag won’t show the artwork. Next to the cover art field is shown the following: image/jpeg 0 119 KB Front Cover\<!--fontc--\>…

---

## [remove other tag type or like ctrl+x ctrl+v](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-other-tag-type-or-like-ctrl-x-ctrl-v/13277)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@bobyang3](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bobyang3)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 2, 2012, 10:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-other-tag-type-or-like-ctrl-x-ctrl-v/13277 "2012-04-02T10:36:42Z")

</div>

Hi, in the default setting, I set up to remove all ID3v1 and APE tag and only try to ID3v2 as Unicode BE. The reason I need to do this is that. I have a lot of non-English songs, and -ID3v1 doesn’t support Unicode, an…

---

## [autonumbering wizard](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/autonumbering-wizard/13276)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@bobyang3](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bobyang3)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [April 2, 2012, 7:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/autonumbering-wizard/13276 "2012-04-02T07:28:38Z")

</div>

Hi, I just wonder how to add “autonumbering wizard” to the “Actions” as one of the rule. thanks~

---

## [how to put a dash before the last word in a title?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-put-a-dash-before-the-last-word-in-a-title/13278)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@evergreen1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/evergreen1)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 2, 2012, 5:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-put-a-dash-before-the-last-word-in-a-title/13278 "2012-04-02T05:29:00Z")

</div>

i have a title as this 27 hello dear inh253686.mp3 i want to put a dash before the last word starting with the letter i how can i do that? please refer to post number 51568. it gave me a direction like this. $regexp(…

---

## [how to delete the last word in a title?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-delete-the-last-word-in-a-title/13274)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@evergreen1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/evergreen1)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 1, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-delete-the-last-word-in-a-title/13274 "2012-04-01T23:06:02Z")

</div>

i have a title like this 27 hello dear inh253686.mp3 i want to delete the last word in it-starting with the letter i how can it be accomplished? thanks

---

## [Convert tag to tag meta-sep problem](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-tag-to-tag-meta-sep-problem/13271)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@VirusKiller](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/VirusKiller)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 1, 2012, 2:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/convert-tag-to-tag-meta-sep-problem/13271 "2012-04-01T14:42:52Z")

</div>

Hi, I’ve just tried to use the convert tag -\> tag function to copy all my GENRE tag fields to a new SUBGENRE field. The problem is that if I have multiple genres, e.g. Blues\\Rock, with a \\ meta-sep character, then only…

---

## [Keeping line feeds in RTF export](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/keeping-line-feeds-in-rtf-export/13272)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@rlsmith46](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rlsmith46)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 1, 2012, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/keeping-line-feeds-in-rtf-export/13272 "2012-04-01T12:14:47Z")

</div>

I am creating an action to export all the lyrics of selected songs. The lyrics, of course contain multiple lines of text. If I export the data as a TXT file, the multiple lines and line breaks are retained. If, howev…

---

## [Discog and Musicbrainz results for Common Album Names](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discog-and-musicbrainz-results-for-common-album-names/13270)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@stl809](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/stl809)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 1, 2012, 7:01am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discog-and-musicbrainz-results-for-common-album-names/13270 "2012-04-01T07:01:27Z")

</div>

I have a number of ‘Greatest Hits’ and ‘Best of’ albums and when I use Discog or Musicbrainz to look for them 99 times out of 100 I’ll get a huge list of albums by those names but not the one by the artist I’m looking up…

---

## [text1 - text2](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/text1-text2/13268)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@Seyss](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Seyss)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [March 31, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/text1-text2/13268 "2012-03-31T20:04:34Z")

</div>

Hello, I have many songs with %TITLE% = Artist - Title I want to set %ARTIST% = Artist, and %TITLE% = Title How can I do this using Format Converter or any other tool? To avoid mistakes as eating Artist names like “L…

---

## [Import title from filename](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-title-from-filename/13269)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@Snotnose](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Snotnose)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 31, 2012, 6:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/import-title-from-filename/13269 "2012-03-31T06:21:31Z")

</div>

I must be stupid, I can’t figure this out. I have a directory of untagged files. I managed to group-change the album and artist fields, but can’t get the title. I want the title tag to be the filename with the trailin…

---

## [Problem with Text File to Tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-with-text-file-to-tag/13260)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@jcbt75](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jcbt75)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 26, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-with-text-file-to-tag/13260 "2012-03-26T16:33:23Z")

</div>

I’m a beginner with Mp3Tag and I’m trying to import fields via “Text file to Tag”, in order to automate changes on only four fields for all files in more than 1,200 CDs. My objective is to re-use these fields after trans…

---

## [Probelm with regexp...](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/probelm-with-regexp/13241)

<div class="topic-metadata">

**Author:** [@jbuszkie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jbuszkie)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [March 26, 2012, 11:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/probelm-with-regexp/13241 "2012-03-26T11:55:27Z")

</div>

I’m trying to extract an artist from a title and I’m running into issues. I’ve tried regexp web testers and the code seems fine. But when I use it in MP3Tag… I get an errors. example title: I’m Every Woman \[Whitney …

[Previous page](https://community.mp3tag.de/c/support/19.md?page=288)

[Next page](https://community.mp3tag.de/c/support/19.md?page=290)