# Support **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/c/support/19.md?page=388 [Latest](https://community.mp3tag.de/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.mp3tag.de/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/tags.md) **Page:** 389 --- ## [Converting 1 to 01](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converting-1-to-01/4294)
**Author:** [@sigloiv](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sigloiv)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converting-1-to-01/4294 "2007-01-09T03:24:46Z")
Is there some way I can either apply one Action to all tracks that converts the track # from 1 to 01 or 2 to 02, etc. (and have it automatically skip over track #s 10+) or have Convert Tag --\> Filename always create tw… --- ## [playlists without artist and album name](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/playlists-without-artist-and-album-name/4298)
**Author:** [@0perator](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/0perator)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/playlists-without-artist-and-album-name/4298 "2007-01-07T21:36:22Z")
Hello Is it possible to have on playlist only title name without album and album? I don’t know if it’s a good idea, but for winamp the whole name artist - album - track no - title is too long. tia --- ## [any problems with freedb2.org?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/any-problems-with-freedb2-org/4295)
**Author:** [@0perator](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/0perator)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2007, 11:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/any-problems-with-freedb2-org/4295 "2007-01-07T11:56:29Z")
Is there any new problems known with http://www.freedb2.org/? Copy and paste of ID very often doesn’t work. 74f754f6 I set enter manually, paste ID and set to rock but ID still not found. (1• rock/74f754f6 Cocteau Twin… --- ## [WMP11 Only Reading ID3v1 Tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp11-only-reading-id3v1-tags/4293)
**Author:** [@sigloiv](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sigloiv)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2007, 8:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp11-only-reading-id3v1-tags/4293 "2007-01-06T20:15:42Z")
First off, I want to say I love Mp3tag. I’ve been using it for the past two years or so with a temporary lapse of Mediamonkey in the middle, but I saw the light and I’m using it again. Here’s my problem though: Any tag … --- ## [copy tags from one file to another](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-tags-from-one-file-to-another/4286)
**Author:** [@rtgjeg](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rtgjeg)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-tags-from-one-file-to-another/4286 "2007-01-05T19:09:51Z")
I’m having trouble copying a tag from one file to another. I read about it in the FAQ, but it does not seem to work. I highlight the file with the good tag. Hit C Then I highlight the new file I hit V It says “Do… --- ## [Protecting Fields](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/protecting-fields/4280)
**Author:** [@smallboy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/smallboy)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/protecting-fields/4280 "2007-01-04T18:32:55Z")
Hi, this is my first post. I have come across mp3’s with tags that have fields that are uneditable. Does anybody have any ideas how this is done as i am working on a mini project and am looking to add some text that i … --- ## [Remove Text after Feat.](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-text-after-feat/4279)
**Author:** [@juvatex](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/juvatex)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2007, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-text-after-feat/4279 "2007-01-04T13:15:32Z")
I have a bunch of tags that have feat. or featuring or ft. in them that I want to take out. Title: Song Title feat. Artist(s) to Title: Song Title Anyone have an action for this? --- ## [Confused about Album Art](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/confused-about-album-art/4274)
**Author:** [@booboo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/booboo)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2007, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/confused-about-album-art/4274 "2007-01-03T12:25:12Z")
I’m more than a little confused about album art. I’m using version 2.37a and I’ve created a column per instructions in another thread with the following settings… Name: Cover Art Value: %\_covers% Field: %\_covers% Wh… --- ## [strange unicode support](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-unicode-support/4273)
**Author:** [@caprik](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/caprik)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-unicode-support/4273 "2007-01-02T20:40:59Z")
I tried the latest version of mp3tag and find out the unicode support. I still use programs and devices than doesn’t support unicode properly so i would prefer not to use it. I tried to wrote some tags and find out that… --- ## [Backing Up Actions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/backing-up-actions/4270)
**Author:** [@Viper](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Viper)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/backing-up-actions/4270 "2007-01-01T19:32:37Z")
I’ve searched the forum for this topic but no results were given. Soooooo… Is there a way to “Backup” the Actions that I’ve created? I surely would hate to loose all the efforts I’ve made and the help received from fo… --- ## [iTunes tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/itunes-tag/4238)
**Author:** [@Lisa](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Lisa)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 31, 2006, 9:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/itunes-tag/4238 "2006-12-31T09:21:34Z")
Hi, I’ve got a couple of questios about tagging and iTunes. Firstly, I use iTunes to play music and I had been tagging and adding artwork etc. using the Idv2.3 ISO-8859 option and the unicode characters was displayed a… --- ## [How do i include the track# in the title tag?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-include-the-track-in-the-title-tag/4234)
**Author:** [@sherpa101](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sherpa101)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-include-the-track-in-the-title-tag/4234 "2006-12-30T18:48:53Z")
I want the title field to include the track number and the title, and i want the track number to have a “0” in front if it is a 1 digit number. So if the original file looked like this: Track:1 Title: Airbag It would… --- ## [discogs don´t work!](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discogs-don-t-work/4260)
**Author:** [@charlyms](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/charlyms)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2006, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discogs-don-t-work/4260 "2006-12-30T16:26:08Z")
hy! a newbie get a problem. what´s about discogs? never get a connection to the server. wrong configuration? please help! --- ## [Remove fields except usage](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-fields-except-usage/4262)
**Author:** [@botho](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/botho)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2006, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-fields-except-usage/4262 "2006-12-30T13:59:41Z")
I want to except the covert art but don’t know the tag name ? Thanks for any suggestions Regards --- ## [rename directory?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-directory/4259)
**Author:** [@goldmercury](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/goldmercury)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-directory/4259 "2006-12-29T19:04:45Z")
Great little bit of software. just tagged my whole mp3 collection is there a option to rename the directory the mp3s are sitting in? At the moment I’ve just got the artist name as the name of the folder/directory but … --- ## [Fixing broken unicode characters](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/fixing-broken-unicode-characters/4237)
**Author:** [@djkym](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djkym)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/fixing-broken-unicode-characters/4237 "2006-12-29T04:02:04Z")
I have some asian songs from my cousin, and all the filenames as well as tags have broken unicode characters (ie. ¡²¢Ü¡³¸Õµ¥ÀÌ Å°Á.mp3 for a filename). I was wondering if there’s an option within mp3tag that can fix the… --- ## [What type of character encoding does Mp3tag use for Flac tags?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-type-of-character-encoding-does-mp3tag-use-for-flac-tags/4251)
**Author:** [@JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JJ_Johnson)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-type-of-character-encoding-does-mp3tag-use-for-flac-tags/4251 "2006-12-28T20:06:51Z")
Is it unicode of some particular flavor? I’m doing some scripting in VBS to transcode my Flac library into Mp3 with id3v2 tags. Every file in the Flac library has been tagged using Mp3tag at some point. I’ve tried usi… --- ## [Questions about 'Text file - Tag' format strings](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/questions-about-text-file-tag-format-strings/4247)
**Author:** [@dtronvig](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dtronvig)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/questions-about-text-file-tag-format-strings/4247 "2006-12-28T00:06:52Z")
Hey, great program, but I'm trying to learn more about format strings for Text file - Tag conversion: Can you use any other delimiter than ’ / ', like maybe a tab character? I’ll have some long format strings, where… --- ## [How to use $if function in Replace with regular expression?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-use-if-function-in-replace-with-regular-expression/4241)
**Author:** [@krtek](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/krtek)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-use-if-function-in-replace-with-regular-expression/4241 "2006-12-27T21:20:03Z")
I want to transform some Russian tags to latin characters and changing codepage does not work correctly (it gives rubbish). So I want to do it manually with regexes. I want the action to be sensitive for that if the tag … --- ## [A question about tagging mp3s](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/a-question-about-tagging-mp3s/4228)
**Author:** [@Biosphere](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Biosphere)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/a-question-about-tagging-mp3s/4228 "2006-12-27T12:35:03Z")
I want an artist to appear like this, when I enter it in the Artist box in the Summary tab. “Melvins/Lustmord”, but it always comes up “Melvins” Thanks. --- ## [Many Playlists to ID3 Track Numbers mass conversion.](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/many-playlists-to-id3-track-numbers-mass-conversion/4244)
**Author:** [@t10](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/t10)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/many-playlists-to-id3-track-numbers-mass-conversion/4244 "2006-12-26T23:42:04Z")
I sort my music by folders. Parent folder\>Genre Subfolders\>Album Folders Each album folder has a playlist, which keeps the tracks in proper order (1, 2, 3, 4 etc) Problem is, I just got an xbox360, and it does not r… --- ## [Quickpick not displaying context items](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/quickpick-not-displaying-context-items/4223)
**Author:** [@jaae](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jaae)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 24, 2006, 10:31am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/quickpick-not-displaying-context-items/4223 "2006-12-24T10:31:03Z")
I’ve been using MP3Tag for over a year now. At first I used quickpick a lot, and was pleased with the easy access to recently used folders. For a time I abandoned quickpick, but now I would like to use it again. Unfortun… --- ## [Replace in directory other than the immediate parent dir?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-in-directory-other-than-the-immediate-parent-dir/4220)
**Author:** [@thzxcyl](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/thzxcyl)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 21, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-in-directory-other-than-the-immediate-parent-dir/4220 "2006-12-21T16:51:53Z")
In both Replace and Replace with regular expression, the field option only includes \_ALL, \_DIRECTORY, \_FILENAME, and \_TAG (along with tag fields). So say I have a file: C:\\cd collection\\aéro\\newfolder\\album\\blahblah.mp3 … --- ## [Renaming the Names in Mp3tag for ID3v2 tag fields](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-the-names-in-mp3tag-for-id3v2-tag-fields/4217)
**Author:** [@Aure](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Aure)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 21, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-the-names-in-mp3tag-for-id3v2-tag-fields/4217 "2006-12-21T15:43:04Z")
Is there any way to rename the default Tag Field Mapping in Mp3tag? Some examples of how I want the tag field to appear in Mp3tag: - ARTIST becomes Artist ENCODEDBY becomes Encoded by DISCNUMBER becomes Disc LANGUAGE … --- ## [When does Mp3tag save its settings to disk?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/when-does-mp3tag-save-its-settings-to-disk/4215)
**Author:** [@JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JJ_Johnson)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 21, 2006, 9:31am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/when-does-mp3tag-save-its-settings-to-disk/4215 "2006-12-21T09:31:22Z")
When does Mp3tag save its own configuration settings? Are they saved immediately upon making a change, periodically written to disk, or only upon exitting the program? In other words, could a program crash prevent sett… --- ## [How does Mp3tag update files?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-does-mp3tag-update-files/4213)
**Author:** [@JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JJ_Johnson)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 20, 2006, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-does-mp3tag-update-files/4213 "2006-12-20T22:19:04Z")
When Mp3tag is updating tags within a file, does it directly overwrite the file, which (potentially) could damage the file if Mp3tag crashes during the write? Or, does it write out a temporary file, then delete the old … --- ## [Create an action for album art from folders](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/create-an-action-for-album-art-from-folders/4208)
**Author:** [@achilipu](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/achilipu)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 20, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/create-an-action-for-album-art-from-folders/4208 "2006-12-20T14:02:06Z")
Hi! I made a search on this topic and I didn’t find anything. If there is any topic about it I apologize. I have a .jpg file in all my music folders (it is called folder.jpg in all cases). I would like to create an act… --- ## [Conditional Move action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conditional-move-action/4200)
**Author:** [@Tradewind25](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Tradewind25)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 20, 2006, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conditional-move-action/4200 "2006-12-20T13:03:17Z")
Hi, Q: Can I make an action group conditional upon the current value of a tag field? Requirement I wish to eliminate a tag field but to archive it in case of future need. So far I have constructed an action group con… --- ## [ID3v2 Artist Tag Not Working](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/id3v2-artist-tag-not-working/4197)
**Author:** [@Geppetto825](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Geppetto825)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 19, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/id3v2-artist-tag-not-working/4197 "2006-12-19T15:55:26Z")
I had all of my MP3s with ID3v2 and ID3v1 tags, but needed to touch some up, so I used mp3tag to do file to tag rename. When I viewed in Winamp, all of the tags wrote fine except for ID3v2 did not have any entries for A… --- ## [Only add Album Art](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/only-add-album-art/4198)
**Author:** [@KaraokeK](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/KaraokeK)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 18, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/only-add-album-art/4198 "2006-12-18T22:21:50Z")
Hi, Having looked up the album using the online facility is there anyway of only adding the album art to the tag - leaving all other aspects of the tag as they are. Many thanks [Previous page](https://community.mp3tag.de/c/support/19.md?page=387) [Next page](https://community.mp3tag.de/c/support/19.md?page=389)