# Support

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## [Edit Title Field](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edit-title-field/9110)

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**Author:** [@genghiskhan](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/genghiskhan)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 10, 2009, 8:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/edit-title-field/9110 "2009-10-10T08:24:40Z")

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Some of my files are tagged as follows File Name: 02 Compliments On Your Kiss - Red Dragon Featuring Brain And Tony Gold.mp3 Title: Compliments On Your Kiss - Red Dragon Featuring Brain And Tony Gold Artist: Now That’…

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## [Embed album art into 1st track in folders only?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/embed-album-art-into-1st-track-in-folders-only/9090)

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**Author:** [@fluffy-chick](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fluffy-chick)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 7, 2009, 9:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/embed-album-art-into-1st-track-in-folders-only/9090 "2009-10-07T09:49:05Z")

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My album art is currently saved in album folders as folder.jpg. For itunes/ ipod reasons I’d like to embed art into the first track in each folder. Not necessarily all tracks numbered 1 though because for remixes and b…

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## [Exporter eats up Japanese text in tags?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporter-eats-up-japanese-text-in-tags/9092)

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**Author:** [@Iceman\_B](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Iceman_B)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 6, 2009, 9:23am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporter-eats-up-japanese-text-in-tags/9092 "2009-10-06T09:23:14Z")

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Hey all, I have a cd “Rain Drops” by 猫叉Master(Nekomata Master) who’s tags I want to export to (any) file. But whatever I try, I end up with a severely crippled file :confused: I have all MP3 files, and only ID3v2.4 ta…

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## [Export Tags with Discnumber](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-tags-with-discnumber/9079)

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**Author:** [@KHL](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/KHL)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 5, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-tags-with-discnumber/9079 "2009-10-05T16:42:59Z")

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Hello to everybody, I'm new to this community. This is my very first post and I'd like to ask two questions, please. As I'm german the attached screenshot shows german columnheaders, sorry... I have a collection of a…

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## [Replace a tag with an informational field](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-a-tag-with-an-informational-field/9087)

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**Author:** [@dat223](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dat223)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 5, 2009, 5:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-a-tag-with-an-informational-field/9087 "2009-10-05T05:52:08Z")

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How do I replace a tag with an informational field? For example, how would I replace the “artist” tag with the informational field “directory”? Thanks!

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## [Split fields by separator](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/split-fields-by-separator/9088)

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**Author:** [@davidlan](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/davidlan)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 5, 2009, 5:47am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/split-fields-by-separator/9088 "2009-10-05T05:47:20Z")

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Hi, I have a question that I’m pretty sure Mp3tag can do, just can’t figure out how to do it. All of my Albums are labeled in the tag as “Artist - Album” and I want to change it back to just having it be “Album”. Can so…

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## [why my tag dont always keep the new info?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/why-my-tag-dont-always-keep-the-new-info/9081)

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**Author:** [@vincyo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/vincyo)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 4, 2009, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/why-my-tag-dont-always-keep-the-new-info/9081 "2009-10-04T14:56:47Z")

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It happens once a while that after tagging some files and updating my library in media player, the files tags change back to the old values. why?

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## [Save M4A tags to file](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/save-m4a-tags-to-file/9078)

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**Author:** [@iGotQuestion](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/iGotQuestion)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 4, 2009, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/save-m4a-tags-to-file/9078 "2009-10-04T14:05:41Z")

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Hi, I have a bunch of M4A music that I converted from FLAC using iTunes. How can I save the tags for the music? I would like to be able to import them back into the respective files using Mp3tag if for some reason the t…

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## [Remove tag sequence](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-tag-sequence/9077)

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**Author:** [@danctes](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/danctes)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 4, 2009, 10:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-tag-sequence/9077 "2009-10-04T10:35:33Z")

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Hi! Sorry if this question is already aswered. If so, please redirect. Is it possible, in one little effort, to remove all the from all tags in one whole album? If i did not make myself understood, please tell. Than…

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## [Scripting Cover Art Import](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/scripting-cover-art-import/9064)

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**Author:** [@hkhurana](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/hkhurana)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 3, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/scripting-cover-art-import/9064 "2009-10-03T18:17:56Z")

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Hi, I’ve searched around and I am sorry if I have missed this. Is there anyway to script updating high quality coverart and embedding it in files (in my case WMA files). I understand how to do this by hand, but it’s goi…

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## [Automatically select next file](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/automatically-select-next-file/9071)

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**Author:** [@chouse626](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chouse626)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 3, 2009, 8:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/automatically-select-next-file/9071 "2009-10-03T08:21:53Z")

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This is a general question and I’m hoping someone can help me with this… In “options” I have the automatically select next file box checked yet when I hit ctrl+S to save or click save it doesn’t go to the next file. I’…

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## [Tagging from MusicBrainz](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-from-musicbrainz/9070)

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**Author:** [@McShane](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/McShane)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 2, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-from-musicbrainz/9070 "2009-10-02T21:22:55Z")

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Sup. Since I've installed MP3Tag I've never had a problem with it. That is, until a few days ago! MusicBrainz used to find about 95% of the albums I searched for, now it's hardly finding any. It's even refusing to find…

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## [Cannot remove multiple FLAC tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-remove-multiple-flac-tags/9065)

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**Author:** [@feroxity](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/feroxity)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 2, 2009, 7:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-remove-multiple-flac-tags/9065 "2009-10-02T19:55:04Z")

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Hi, using mp3tag 2.44. I have a bunch of FLAC files that for some reason have multiple tags written to them. I’m tryiing to fix this, but for some reason I can not. Neither Tag Cut nor Remove Tag seem to do anything. I…

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## [Export Default](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-default/9053)

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**Author:** [@tomx2](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tomx2)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 2, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-default/9053 "2009-10-02T17:20:18Z")

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hello, i am new to mp3tag. i messed up and altered the default csv export file. i would like the default back so i can learn by modifying it to fit my needs. I know, i should have created a copy first! i have tried rein…

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## [Tracklist linenumber](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tracklist-linenumber/6201)

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**Author:** [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 1, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tracklist-linenumber/6201 "2009-10-01T22:36:13Z")

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Anyone know how create a tracklist column that shows a linenumber? Thanks. (%\_counter% used to (mostly) work, but I guess that was Undefined Behaviour, since that’s undocumented and fails in the current dev build.)

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## [Replace Blank Album with Text](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-blank-album-with-text/9046)

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**Author:** [@limapet](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/limapet)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 30, 2009, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-blank-album-with-text/9046 "2009-09-30T12:50:14Z")

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I’m trying to replace blank albums with an album name by defining an action that replaces a blank with a name, but mp3tag won’t let me save the action with a null Original name. How can I accomplish what I want?

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## [Importing cover art](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/importing-cover-art/9056)

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**Author:** [@JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JJ_Johnson)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 30, 2009, 7:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/importing-cover-art/9056 "2009-09-30T07:20:15Z")

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Can you designate more than one file name, so that the first one found is imported? For example: folder.jpg;folder.png;cover.jpg;cover.png. I think I may be able to do this within an Action Group by designating each on…

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## [Win7 Tagging Problems](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/win7-tagging-problems/9054)

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**Author:** [@WillSmith](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/WillSmith)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 29, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/win7-tagging-problems/9054 "2009-09-29T18:22:15Z")

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Hey guys I have issues renaming songs correctly. The songs I got are named after the title number and song title, as it seems. if I change the attributes to %artist% - %Track% it still shows me the title number and trac…

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## [More help on Actions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/more-help-on-actions/9026)

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**Author:** [@Darfyddi](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Darfyddi)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 29, 2009, 8:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/more-help-on-actions/9026 "2009-09-29T08:42:14Z")

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This is the only place I can find at the moment with any thing. https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions IT would be great if someone could point us too or write a page similar showing all expressions and equations and their mea…

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## [Discogs Track Number / Disc Number issues with Multi-Disc Releases](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discogs-track-number-disc-number-issues-with-multi-disc-releases/8795)

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**Author:** [@nhakobian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/nhakobian)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 27, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discogs-track-number-disc-number-issues-with-multi-disc-releases/8795 "2009-09-27T17:42:36Z")

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Hi, I am having an issue including correct track numbers and disc numbers for data from the Discogs service. Instead of importing the information from the Discogs website regarding the track number, it seems that Mp3Tag…

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## [Couple General Q's about tagging](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/couple-general-qs-about-tagging/9023)

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**Author:** [@GrapePopsicle](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/GrapePopsicle)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 26, 2009, 10:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/couple-general-qs-about-tagging/9023 "2009-09-26T10:40:47Z")

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I’m wondering if there are any reasons why one shouldn’t save tags in both ID3v1 and ID3v2 format…does this cause any problems with anything? And the other thing I’m wondering is if it’s possible to list more than one g…

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## [artists tag question](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artists-tag-question/9028)

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**Author:** [@vincyo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/vincyo)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 26, 2009, 10:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artists-tag-question/9028 "2009-09-26T10:37:42Z")

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i wanna know if it is possible to use the file name to add info to the artists tag. i wanna keep the actual info and add the new. Its to add featured artist to the main artist. thanks

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## [Removing "prod. by xxx"](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-prod-by-xxx/8975)

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**Author:** [@pszem](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pszem)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 26, 2009, 10:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-prod-by-xxx/8975 "2009-09-26T10:36:02Z")

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Hi. Sometimes titles have added at the end of it information about producer of the track. It looks like this Native Tongue Medley Pt 1 (Rhymefest) prod. by Scram Jones. When whole album is produced by one man it’s no pr…

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## [One-way options](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/one-way-options/8988)

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**Author:** [@martinlooker](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/martinlooker)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [September 25, 2009, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/one-way-options/8988 "2009-09-25T13:24:55Z")

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Hi, First of all thanks for making this freely available I have some questions/suggestions… It seems there are a number of one-way operations where it would be useful to have two-way operations: Save configuration bu…

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## [Problem deriving artist from filename](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-deriving-artist-from-filename/8916)

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**Author:** [@whitesmith](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/whitesmith)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 25, 2009, 11:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/problem-deriving-artist-from-filename/8916 "2009-09-25T11:33:34Z")

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My collection of classical music is organized using the composer’s last name as the subdirectory, and his compositions under that. For example, under Music\\Beethoven\\ there are files named like: Choral Fantasy – Op. 80\_…

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## [Batch rename file extensions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-rename-file-extensions/9024)

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**Author:** [@floramarche](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/floramarche)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 25, 2009, 10:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-rename-file-extensions/9024 "2009-09-25T10:57:22Z")

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My MP3 player went haywire and changed all my MP3 files to DAT. Is there a way to batch rename the extensions before going through and extracting the tag info, or am I going to have to rename all 3000 files one by one?

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## [sorry for another simple one- shorten filename](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sorry-for-another-simple-one-shorten-filename/9016)

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**Author:** [@Darfyddi](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Darfyddi)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2009, 8:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sorry-for-another-simple-one-shorten-filename/9016 "2009-09-23T20:55:04Z")

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Hi, I can find the ‘Shorten to 64’ option andd also I found one post to shorten file names if they have 2 or more parts to them with a dividing character and it is easy enough to copy that for similar or more parts. How…

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## [Batch transfer of tag from one folder to another](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-transfer-of-tag-from-one-folder-to-another/8977)

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**Author:** [@Darfyddi](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Darfyddi)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-transfer-of-tag-from-one-folder-to-another/8977 "2009-09-23T20:34:22Z")

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Hello again, I have 2 folders, one with all music at 320kbps for playing on my hifi via the pc, the other is 96kbps to put on my phone or cd’s for the car to minimise space. The problem I have is that I saved all the m…

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## [Wierd context menu open for many files...](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wierd-context-menu-open-for-many-files/9006)

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**Author:** [@markeh](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/markeh)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2009, 6:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wierd-context-menu-open-for-many-files/9006 "2009-09-23T18:32:20Z")

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This seems to be recent, though I can’t pin down the age. When I open a “bunch” of mp3s into MP3TAG, using the right mouse (context menu), I get strange behavior. A group of them will open, MP3TAG will “flash”, those w…

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## ["Path lenght" column](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/path-lenght-column/9005)

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**Author:** [@danny62](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/danny62)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2009, 4:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/path-lenght-column/9005 "2009-09-22T16:24:08Z")

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I’d like to have a column for groping files according to their path’s lenght. e. g. a file which has a path with four subfolder vs a file which has a path with five subfolder and so on. I’d like it because I then can a…

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