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## [Conditional delete](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conditional-delete/42345)

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**Author:** [@sheepdisease](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sheepdisease)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [July 15, 2018, 5:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conditional-delete/42345 "2018-07-15T17:28:07Z")

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Hello there, I have noticed a number of singles albums in my collection and I have decided I don't want them. I would imagine it is possible to run an action to deal with this? I need to check if total number of tracks…

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## [Copy Cover and paste into Windows 8.1?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-cover-and-paste-into-windows-8-1/42348)

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**Author:** [@Automanic](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Automanic)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [July 15, 2018, 1:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-cover-and-paste-into-windows-8-1/42348 "2018-07-15T13:32:52Z")

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Just wondering if this is possible or if it can be made possible? Within mp3tag I can copy the cover, but every so often I would like to copy the cover using Windows's clipboard.

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## [Default Extended Tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/default-extended-tags/42295)

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**Author:** [@izzyforeal](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/izzyforeal)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [July 15, 2018, 3:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/default-extended-tags/42295 "2018-07-15T03:37:31Z")

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Hello All, I would like to know if there is a way to place information in the default "extended tag" box? For example, when I select a song, select extended tag, a box appears with "Artist, Album and Title" along with s…

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## [Inconsistent HTML generated in 2.89](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/inconsistent-html-generated-in-2-89/42337)

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**Author:** [@mls](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mls)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 14, 2018, 10:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/inconsistent-html-generated-in-2-89/42337 "2018-07-14T22:36:45Z")

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I have been exporting large HTML files across many different versions of MP3Tag. No changes have been made in the .MTE recently. After converting MP3Tag v 2.88a to MP3Tag v 2.89, the exported HTML no longer functions as…

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## [Adding filters to actions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-filters-to-actions/42343)

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**Author:** [@sheepdisease](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sheepdisease)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 14, 2018, 5:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-filters-to-actions/42343 "2018-07-14T17:42:03Z")

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Hello there, I am fairly new to using this software but can already see it's power. One thing I have noticed though is that it would be extremely useful if a filter could be added to an action, rather than having to reme…

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## [How to sort genre (multiple tags) alfabetical?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-sort-genre-multiple-tags-alfabetical/42342)

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**Author:** [@bascurtiz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bascurtiz)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 14, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-sort-genre-multiple-tags-alfabetical/42342 "2018-07-14T14:48:32Z")

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Someone made me a script in Python to grab Style description of Discogs.com based on Artist - Title as input. This STYLE tag then gets written to the GENRE tag of the MP3 or FLAC. So far, so good.... But, I want those…

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## [\_TAG tag function?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-tag-function/42339)

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**Author:** [@sheepdisease](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sheepdisease)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 14, 2018, 7:10am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-tag-function/42339 "2018-07-14T07:10:35Z")

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Hello there, I am looking through some code and don't know where mp3tag is pulling the data from for \_TAG? For example: T=4 ! Title Case Conversion \[3\] (Articles, Conjunctions & Short Prepositions to Lower-Case, Except…

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## [MP3TAG won't connect to Discogs or MusicBrainz](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-wont-connect-to-discogs-or-musicbrainz/42256)

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**Author:** [@coop371](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/coop371)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 14, 2018, 7:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-wont-connect-to-discogs-or-musicbrainz/42256 "2018-07-14T07:04:53Z")

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WHen I try to access either Discogs or MusicBrainz I receive an error message. Discogs says failed to authenticate using Oauth (1) and MusicBrainz just keeps coming up with says Sorry, no entries are matching your searc…

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## [Latest update bug](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/latest-update-bug/42335)

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**Author:** [@sogalitno](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sogalitno)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 14, 2018, 2:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/latest-update-bug/42335 "2018-07-14T02:59:43Z")

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Each time i open the latest version it tells me there is a new version ( i have the latest version... ) a little annoying

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## [Unrichtige Fehlermeldung nach Update auf v2.89 beim Umbenennen mit 'Tag zu Dateiname'](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unrichtige-fehlermeldung-nach-update-auf-v2-89-beim-umbenennen-mit-tag-zu-dateiname/42298)

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**Author:** [@deebee](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/deebee)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [July 13, 2018, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/unrichtige-fehlermeldung-nach-update-auf-v2-89-beim-umbenennen-mit-tag-zu-dateiname/42298 "2018-07-13T15:28:38Z")

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Beim Umbenennen einer Dateigruppe erscheint die Fehlermeldung, dass die Dateien nicht umbenannt werden konnten, weil das System die Datei(en) nicht finden konnte, und die Meldung '0 von X Dateien wurden umbenannt'. Die D…

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## [Disc number into Directory](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/disc-number-into-directory/42324)

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**Author:** [@sheepdisease](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sheepdisease)\
**Replies:** 17\
**Last updated:** [July 13, 2018, 7:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/disc-number-into-directory/42324 "2018-07-13T07:54:35Z")

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Hello there, I have a number of albums which are filed as follows: Artist\>Album\>Disc 01 Arist\>Album\>Disc 02 etc The data is correct in the Discnumber tag. Could someone please tell me how would I go about getting th…

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## [MP3s formatieren für Autoradio RNS-E (Audi Navigation plus)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3s-formatieren-fur-autoradio-rns-e-audi-navigation-plus/41977)

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**Author:** [@alex-esko](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/alex-esko)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 19, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3s-formatieren-fur-autoradio-rns-e-audi-navigation-plus/41977 "2018-06-19T23:25:00Z")

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Diese Anleitung bezieht sich auf das RNS-E Mk I / 192 / vor 2009. (So unterscheidet man die Modelle.) Um MP3-Dateien optimal mit dem RNS-E abspielen zu können, gibt es ein paar Dinge zu beachten: klick mich!Hinter jede…

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## [In 2.84+, batch importing cover art into OGGs via an action takes forever, compared to 2.83](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/in-2-84-batch-importing-cover-art-into-oggs-via-an-action-takes-forever-compared-to-2-83/42307)

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**Author:** [@anthonym1229](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/anthonym1229)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [July 12, 2018, 6:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/in-2-84-batch-importing-cover-art-into-oggs-via-an-action-takes-forever-compared-to-2-83/42307 "2018-07-12T18:20:04Z")

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Hello, Several months ago, I reached out to Florian via email regarding this issue, and we were in contact for a little while, but there was never any resolution. In the meantime, I've kept on using 2.83, as that's the …

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## [Runtime error when using right-click tools](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/runtime-error-when-using-right-click-tools/42250)

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**Author:** [@dmc72](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dmc72)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [July 12, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/runtime-error-when-using-right-click-tools/42250 "2018-07-12T16:53:16Z")

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Hope someone can help me out. When i right click a song and go to tools menu , i get a runtime error file: y:\\projects\\mp3tag\\mtmmainframe.cpp line: 5251 i have a couple "tools" setup and they are all doing this. th…

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## [Action to Extract Year From Album Field](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-to-extract-year-from-album-field/42318)

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**Author:** [@djrichiep](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djrichiep)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 12, 2018, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-to-extract-year-from-album-field/42318 "2018-07-12T15:46:18Z")

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Hello, I want to create an action that will pull the Year out of the Album field. The "albums" I am working with all follow the same naming pattern: XXXX YEAR-00-00 XXXXXX XXXXXXXXX How do I set the action to pull ju…

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## [Conditional Formatting for Artist based on Album Artist](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conditional-formatting-for-artist-based-on-album-artist/42230)

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**Author:** [@sheepdisease](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sheepdisease)\
**Replies:** 36\
**Last updated:** [July 12, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conditional-formatting-for-artist-based-on-album-artist/42230 "2018-07-12T15:36:29Z")

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I have a number of albums which contain multiple artists for individual songs. Because the album is by a particular artist, even if another artist is featured, I want the artist to be that of the album (files are stored…

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## [How to split a playlist](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-split-a-playlist/42305)

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**Author:** [@mosterry](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mosterry)\
**Replies:** 17\
**Last updated:** [July 12, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-split-a-playlist/42305 "2018-07-12T11:50:32Z")

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How can I simply split a playlist into "n" sub-playlists? In other words: is there a way to split a playlist of 1000 songs into 100 playlists of 10 songs, grouping the first 10 songs, the second 10 songs, the third 10 so…

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## [Composers & Label](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/composers-label/42309)

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**Author:** [@Lula](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Lula)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 12, 2018, 5:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/composers-label/42309 "2018-07-12T05:09:42Z")

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Good night, how can I add Composers & Label info, and export them to Excell? thanks Lula

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## [How to get all the name tags of a complex music path](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-get-all-the-name-tags-of-a-complex-music-path/42261)

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**Author:** [@Zatanus](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zatanus)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [July 11, 2018, 10:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-get-all-the-name-tags-of-a-complex-music-path/42261 "2018-07-11T10:39:19Z")

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Hi. I have a huge collection (more than 16,000 songs) distributed in hundreds of folders, and I need to extract Artist Tags, Year, Album and Track number from the file and folder name, The routes are almost always: C…

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## [Genres in tag panel v2.89](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genres-in-tag-panel-v2-89/42290)

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**Author:** [@confucius](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/confucius)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 11, 2018, 4:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genres-in-tag-panel-v2-89/42290 "2018-07-11T04:58:18Z")

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Hello, Attached are two screen shots. The first is how I have my "Used\_Genres" displayed in 2.88. The second is with 2.89. The default Genre now lists all the Genres in the selected files, like my "Used\_Genres" in my …

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## [MRU List](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mru-list/17517)

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**Author:** [@Cassiel](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Cassiel)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [July 10, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mru-list/17517 "2018-07-10T20:23:47Z")

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Is it possible to ‘clean’ the MRU directory list? If not, can this feature be added?

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## [Resizing cover art displayed](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/resizing-cover-art-displayed/42277)

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**Author:** [@tipar](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tipar)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [July 10, 2018, 6:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/resizing-cover-art-displayed/42277 "2018-07-10T18:42:48Z")

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Because I did not find an option I prefer to include it as a suggestion. I would like to be able to resize the displayed cover art, now it is taking 1/3 of my mp3tag and usually, I keep hidden the lyrics ("Letra") field …

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## [Fehlerhafte Dateianzeige nach Alt + Drag'n'Drop](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/fehlerhafte-dateianzeige-nach-alt-dragndrop/42283)

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**Author:** [@teddybaer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/teddybaer)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 10, 2018, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/fehlerhafte-dateianzeige-nach-alt-dragndrop/42283 "2018-07-10T16:26:52Z")

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Nachdem ich in der Hilfe zu den Tastatur-Kürzel darauf gestoßen war, habe ich einen Track mit Alt + Drag'n'Drop verschoben. Dies führte zu einem unerwarteten Ergebnis beim Ausführen des DiscogScript. Verwendete Progr…

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## [Not pulling in Featured Artist information from Discogs](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/not-pulling-in-featured-artist-information-from-discogs/42272)

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**Author:** [@WVRN](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/WVRN)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 10, 2018, 1:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/not-pulling-in-featured-artist-information-from-discogs/42272 "2018-07-10T13:27:33Z")

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For years, I've used MP3Tag for editing MP3 tags. I did not want to get too detailed with the tag information but I also wanted some consistency. The consistency that I decided on was Title (containing track title), Arti…

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## [Merge genres to a common value](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/merge-genres-to-a-common-value/42268)

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**Author:** [@musicfx](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/musicfx)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [July 10, 2018, 12:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/merge-genres-to-a-common-value/42268 "2018-07-10T12:46:52Z")

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Hi All, I have 20 mp3 files with three different genres (Ex: RnB, Pop, Rock). I would like to format the genre to be most available to be the value of all 20 mp3 of those files. Is there a way to do this? Thank You.

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## [MP3Tag v2.88a Kopiere Interpret nach Album-Interpret - Fehler](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-v2-88a-kopiere-interpret-nach-album-interpret-fehler/42235)

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**Author:** [@horkol](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/horkol)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [July 10, 2018, 10:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-v2-88a-kopiere-interpret-nach-album-interpret-fehler/42235 "2018-07-10T10:45:15Z")

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Hallo, ich wollte den Inhalt von Interpret nach Album-Interpret per "Tag - Tag" kopieren - siehe nachfolgend Nach Ausführung des Befehls waren die Daten in der Quelle weg, aber im Ziel nicht angekommen - siehe nachfo…

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## [M3U playlists being created using ANSI instead of UTF-8](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/m3u-playlists-being-created-using-ansi-instead-of-utf-8/42247)

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**Author:** [@kimsalang99](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kimsalang99)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/m3u-playlists-being-created-using-ansi-instead-of-utf-8/42247 "2018-07-09T21:14:28Z")

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I'm trying to create a M3U playlist for an album, and the playlist winds up not working as the song filenames are in Japanese. The M3U is being encoded as ANSI instead of Unicode, and this results in Japanese characters …

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## [Tool-"Open files in Windows Explorer" fails with long filesystem paths](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tool-open-files-in-windows-explorer-fails-with-long-filesystem-paths/42138)

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**Author:** [@ryerman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ryerman)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2018, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tool-open-files-in-windows-explorer-fails-with-long-filesystem-paths/42138 "2018-07-09T17:40:49Z")

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In the past, the commonly suggested method to open files in Windows Explorer was the Tool described here. However, that Tool does not work for long file paths (length \> 259 characters). Now that Mp3tag supports long pa…

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## [How to make multi folder with my album tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-make-multi-folder-with-my-album-tag/42245)

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**Author:** [@swarup](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/swarup)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-make-multi-folder-with-my-album-tag/42245 "2018-07-09T15:14:50Z")

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i want to make multi folder with my album tag guess i have a folder and folder have 10 songs (dont have sub folder) but there have 2 different album tag C:\\Users\\Swarup\\Desktop\\album1-track01.mp3 C:\\Users\\Swarup\\Deskto…

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## [Tag Panel Unusual](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-unusual/42243)

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**Author:** [@thaiskylab](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/thaiskylab)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2018, 7:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-unusual/42243 "2018-07-09T07:45:39Z")

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Version 2.88H is this the way it should look ?

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