# Adding \[year\] at beginning of album

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-year-at-beginning-of-album/61353>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [June 24, 2023, 5:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-year-at-beginning-of-album/61353 "2023-06-24T05:20:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![MonolithNZ](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/monolithnz/32/14207_2.png) [@MonolithNZ](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MonolithNZ)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2023, 5:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-year-at-beginning-of-album/61353/1 "2023-06-24T05:20:19Z")

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Hi there,

For years I've been tagging my music with [year] at the beginning of the album title. Eg the album "How to Be a Human Being" is tagged as "[2016] How to Be a Human Being".

It's a quite a lot of work to carry this out manually for every album. Is there a way I could use MP3Tag to automate this/batch tag a large amount of MP3s?

Many, many thanks  
MonolithNZ

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**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2023, 5:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-year-at-beginning-of-album/61353/2 "2023-06-24T05:45:55Z")

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Try an action of the type "Format value" or Convert\>Tag-Tag for ALBUM  
Format string: `'['%year%']' %album%`  
(Run this action only once per album as you would otherwise get a duplicated year at the beginning.)

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**Author:** ![MonolithNZ](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/monolithnz/32/14207_2.png) [@MonolithNZ](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MonolithNZ)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2023, 5:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-year-at-beginning-of-album/61353/3 "2023-06-24T05:52:27Z")

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Thank you so much! That's exactly what I was after.Working perfectly!

If I may, how would I perform the inverse, in order to remove the [year] at the beginning of the album tag?

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**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2023, 5:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-year-at-beginning-of-album/61353/4 "2023-06-24T05:53:47Z")

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Try an action of the type "Guess value"  
Source string: %album%  
Target string: `%dummy%] %album%`

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**Author:** ![MonolithNZ](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/monolithnz/32/14207_2.png) [@MonolithNZ](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MonolithNZ)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2023, 5:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-year-at-beginning-of-album/61353/5 "2023-06-24T05:58:32Z")

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Brilliant! I should've joined this forum years ago.

Thank you again for the help

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 5:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-year-at-beginning-of-album/61353/6 "2023-07-24T05:58:42Z")

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