# Support

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/c/support/19.md?page=368

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## [Is it possible to get rid of all comments for a large set of files all at once?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-it-possible-to-get-rid-of-all-comments-for-a-large-set-of-files-all-at-once/6468)

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**Author:** [@rendar55](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rendar55)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 18, 2008, 10:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-it-possible-to-get-rid-of-all-comments-for-a-large-set-of-files-all-at-once/6468 "2008-03-18T10:52:07Z")

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I’m hoping there is some quick way to just change the comments of 2k+ mp3s to be blank. All help is appreciated.

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## [mp3tag and file name?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-and-file-name/6467)

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**Author:** [@some1whoNeedsHelp](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/some1whoNeedsHelp)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 17, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-and-file-name/6467 "2008-03-17T20:45:51Z")

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I have been using mp3tag since v2.39, and I just noticed that when I use mp3tag, and I check the file location it is not renaming the file? Is this because it edits the tag, and not the actual file btw using vista32 an…

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## [Exporting album details](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-album-details/6466)

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**Author:** [@AndrewFG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AndrewFG)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 17, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exporting-album-details/6466 "2008-03-17T18:18:15Z")

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Hi, In your screenshots http://www.mp3tag.de/en/images/sht\_export.png you show a very nice style sheet for exporting the album details and pictures etc. Can you please how I can do this with my files? Regards, Andrew…

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## [Move strings between tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-strings-between-tags/6458)

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**Author:** [@Rev\_K](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Rev_K)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 17, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-strings-between-tags/6458 "2008-03-17T17:40:35Z")

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I’m trying to create an action that will allow me to move part of the artist tag to the end of the title tag. Example: I currently have this: Artist: Artist Feat Artist 2 Title: Title But I want it to be like this: …

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## [Automatic reorganisation of mp3 folder structure to ('artist') - 'year' - 'albumtitle'](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/automatic-reorganisation-of-mp3-folder-structure-to-artist-year-albumtitle/6456)

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**Author:** [@SerialK](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/SerialK)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [March 17, 2008, 8:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/automatic-reorganisation-of-mp3-folder-structure-to-artist-year-albumtitle/6456 "2008-03-17T08:17:35Z")

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Does anybody know how i could automatically rename the folders containing my mp3s depending on the files they are containing? Each album is in it’s own folder, with the folder being named (‘artist’) - ‘albumtitle’. Now…

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## [Need help re-structuring library!!](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-help-re-structuring-library/6459)

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**Author:** [@mcweinert](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mcweinert)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 16, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-help-re-structuring-library/6459 "2008-03-16T22:45:13Z")

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i have all my music organized into album artist/album/track title right now, the media player default. I just went through and made my library’s tags impeccable with album art attached to all files and all that jazz. wha…

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## [freedb results always wrong](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freedb-results-always-wrong/6454)

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**Author:** [@citrus8832](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/citrus8832)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 16, 2008, 6:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freedb-results-always-wrong/6454 "2008-03-16T06:24:44Z")

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Hi, Im wondering why every time I perform a quick freedb search, the correct results never show up in the window. EG: I have the following file with the following info already loaded in the tags: Filename: Billy Tale…

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## [help with replace function?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-replace-function/6452)

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**Author:** [@dtye](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dtye)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 15, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-with-replace-function/6452 "2008-03-15T15:35:43Z")

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ok maybe im just stupid, but ive searched through all the pinned regular expressions and i cant find one that will work for what i need it to do. im sure this question has been asked before, i just cant find it, so here …

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## [Lost Artist](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/lost-artist/6424)

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**Author:** [@Alan\_Davis](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Alan_Davis)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 14, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/lost-artist/6424 "2008-03-14T21:19:30Z")

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Hello All I just Tryed Mp3 editor for the first time, and I think i screwed up. I removed All info from my mp3 except the song name. I removed the artist name by mistake. How can I recover them. the thought of spending …

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## [Copy year from filename](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-year-from-filename/6444)

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**Author:** [@Fazant](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Fazant)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 13, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-year-from-filename/6444 "2008-03-13T19:40:40Z")

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Hi, Since a few weeks I’m a enthusiastic user of mp3tag. It’s a great tool to structure and optimize my mp3 database. By means of trial and error I’m using several actions. One I can’t get to work is to copy a year whic…

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## [how to display Ratings column (Popm/Popularimeter)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-display-ratings-column-popm-popularimeter/6430)

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**Author:** [@Bronco28](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Bronco28)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 11, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-display-ratings-column-popm-popularimeter/6430 "2008-03-11T15:02:33Z")

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I want to tag multiple files with ratings at once (hundreds) and want to be able to select all the files and rate them at the same time. Can someone explain how I can make it so I can see the ratings column in the main …

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## [renaming files](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-files/6423)

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**Author:** [@alessio](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/alessio)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 10, 2008, 11:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-files/6423 "2008-03-10T11:52:19Z")

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Hello, I’m trying to rename my audio files this way: \[TEXT\]\[INCREMENTING NUMBER\].mp3, with constant filename lenght. ie: ALESSIO0000001.mp3 ALESSIO0000543.mp3 ALESSIO9999999.mp3 How can I proceed? Thank you!

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## [unicode issue in Mp3tag and  ID3v2.3 issue in Itunes](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-issue-in-mp3tag-and-id3v2-3-issue-in-itunes/6420)

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**Author:** [@zzzyyyxxx](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/zzzyyyxxx)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 10, 2008, 4:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unicode-issue-in-mp3tag-and-id3v2-3-issue-in-itunes/6420 "2008-03-10T04:58:10Z")

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…Er… After years of refusing to accept things like tags, it is not until one month ago that I finally started to use mp3tag to create tags and itunes to manage my music collection… However, strange things happened… S…

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## [default folder to save](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/default-folder-to-save/6416)

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**Author:** [@dante5351](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dante5351)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 9, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/default-folder-to-save/6416 "2008-03-09T22:53:48Z")

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Sorry for my english. Today I found a quick window in mp3tagv2.40 for customizing settings where I selected “Same folder to save and open the files” (or something like). Now I don’t find how I made. Please a little help …

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## [Filename to Tag  and Actions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-to-tag-and-actions/6414)

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**Author:** [@DMC](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DMC)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 9, 2008, 10:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-to-tag-and-actions/6414 "2008-03-09T22:05:30Z")

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Want to set MP3tag so filenames convert to artist-track in the tag. Yet when I do this each time I convert a file I get a preview dialouge box. i don’t desire to see that. Have also set the actions to put a desciption…

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## [Regexping path](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/regexping-path/6408)

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**Author:** [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 8, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/regexping-path/6408 "2008-03-08T17:30:49Z")

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How may I apply a regexp to a filepath e.g. I want to change all files from \\aaa\\bbb\\ccc.ext to \\aaasome\\bbbthing\\cccelse.ext . regardless of how the file was loaded. Convert | Tag - Filename gives some wrong result…

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## [Tracknumbers](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tracknumbers/1309)

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**Author:** [@j-p-w](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/j-p-w)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 8, 2008, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tracknumbers/1309 "2008-03-08T12:25:07Z")

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Hey volks! I am using mp3tag very often, but I’ve still got a problem. When I am building the filename from the idtag, the tracknumber has got only one-digit. This causes the explorer to sort tracks like this: 1-blabl…

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## [Add a picture](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-a-picture/6398)

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**Author:** [@Mike77](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Mike77)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 7, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-a-picture/6398 "2008-03-07T19:44:49Z")

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Hi! I tried to include a picture (.jpg) but I have an error message “The file could not be opened for writing”. What is the problem? Mike

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## [Tag to Filename, Filename to Tag DropDown Lists](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-to-filename-filename-to-tag-dropdown-lists/2369)

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**Author:** [@directjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/directjj)\
**Replies:** 14\
**Last updated:** [March 7, 2008, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-to-filename-filename-to-tag-dropdown-lists/2369 "2008-03-07T19:26:12Z")

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I think I understand the skelektons for renaming a filename from tags, or renaming tags, from a filename, but although there appears to be a drop down list capability for previously used patterns, mp3tag does not appear …

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## [English Help](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/english-help/6371)

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**Author:** [@kiwichick](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kiwichick)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 6, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/english-help/6371 "2008-03-06T20:30:19Z")

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Hi there, how do I get English help files for Mp3tag? In the help folder of the installation directory even though the help filenames are English the content is German. Thanks for any assistance.

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## [Support for ID3v2 ownership frame ('OWNE')?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/support-for-id3v2-ownership-frame-owne/6387)

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**Author:** [@djbronko](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djbronko)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 5, 2008, 6:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/support-for-id3v2-ownership-frame-owne/6387 "2008-03-05T06:07:24Z")

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Hi, can I view or edit the ownership frame ‘OWNE’ (see ID3v2 Spec for details) in Mp3Tag? I found nothing about it in the docs or the forums. All I found is that Mp3Tag doesn’t support frames with binary data. The owner…

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## [Copying Tags from One File to Another](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-tags-from-one-file-to-another/6376)

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**Author:** [@JFord](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JFord)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 4, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copying-tags-from-one-file-to-another/6376 "2008-03-04T20:13:40Z")

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Everytime I think I have found a limit to what Mp3Tag can do, I find that I am wrong. Let’s see if that happens again… I am attempting to copy comment tags from one file to another. This would be easy for a few files,…

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## [UNSYNCEDLYRICS](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unsyncedlyrics/6385)

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**Author:** [@JeanLouis](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JeanLouis)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 4, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unsyncedlyrics/6385 "2008-03-04T19:55:51Z")

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I have a action script that stopped working properly. It merges few tags and populate UNSYNCEDLYRICS. It used to work great but for some reasons now it doesn’t anymore. it looks like that it is truncating the result stri…

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## [Display "tool" (e.g., LAME 3.97) and total tracks](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/display-tool-e-g-lame-3-97-and-total-tracks/6367)

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**Author:** [@garym](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/garym)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 3, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/display-tool-e-g-lame-3-97-and-total-tracks/6367 "2008-03-03T20:04:56Z")

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Can’t seem to figure out why I can’t get the encoder tool to display in a column in mp3tag. I use %\_tool% as the value name and nothing gets displayed. Same files in fb2k display tool type with (in fb2k) $info(tool). S…

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## [Adding an empty tag seems not possible](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-an-empty-tag-seems-not-possible/6359)

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**Author:** [@kael](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kael)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 1, 2008, 12:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-an-empty-tag-seems-not-possible/6359 "2008-03-01T12:09:06Z")

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When I select a file, press Alt-T, add a field like Comment: then the Value for this field can’t be left empty, I need to add minimal 1 char. before the OK button becomes active. Is this resticted somehow?

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## [filter tracks with v2.3UTF in order to change to ISO](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-tracks-with-v2-3utf-in-order-to-change-to-iso/6340)

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**Author:** [@kael](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kael)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 1, 2008, 11:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-tracks-with-v2-3utf-in-order-to-change-to-iso/6340 "2008-03-01T11:57:06Z")

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How can I find all tracks with v2.3UTF tags in order to change them to v2.3ISO tags?

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## [Regular expression to convert case to Case, with exceptions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/regular-expression-to-convert-case-to-case-with-exceptions/6357)

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**Author:** [@egd](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/egd)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 1, 2008, 5:11am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/regular-expression-to-convert-case-to-case-with-exceptions/6357 "2008-03-01T05:11:57Z")

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Hi Any idea how best to implement a regular expression or action to convert all words in all fields to “First Letter Caps” (other than the following \[a, an, the, and, but, or, as, at, by, for, in, of, on, to\], unless th…

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## [Freedb Problems](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freedb-problems/6349)

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**Author:** [@Hubird](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Hubird)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 29, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freedb-problems/6349 "2008-02-29T15:36:17Z")

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I am having trouble accessing freedb through mp3tag. I have increased the timeout to 15 and have checked the settings and that are exactly as listed on the freedb website: Address Path …

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## [Action Rules](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-rules/6351)

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**Author:** [@smcpoland](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/smcpoland)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 29, 2008, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-rules/6351 "2008-02-29T13:17:05Z")

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Hi guys, I want to take a substring (to the comment field) from the %\_folderpath% for example using the following Action Rule: $left(%\_folderpath%,$len(%\_folderpath%)-1) But all I ever get is the full folderpath - nev…

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## [Deleting initialkey](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/deleting-initialkey/6344)

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**Author:** [@mariodemislata](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mariodemislata)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 28, 2008, 6:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/deleting-initialkey/6344 "2008-02-28T06:06:08Z")

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Hello everyone i need help,I use scratch live On the screen I get whenever the songs whit initial key joe negro-make move on -4A How I can remove -4A? Sorry for my English gracias

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