# Applying filter to match two strings

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/applying-filter-to-match-two-strings/49477>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [June 29, 2020, 4:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/applying-filter-to-match-two-strings/49477 "2020-06-29T04:43:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![stackedbeer](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@stackedbeer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/stackedbeer)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 4:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/applying-filter-to-match-two-strings/49477/1 "2020-06-29T04:43:44Z")

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A noob here.  
I have about 800 files listed and simply want to filter songs that have the same title as their album.  
With minimal search on other threads, I tried %title% MATCHES %album% but it didn't work.

Help!

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**Author:** ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 4:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/applying-filter-to-match-two-strings/49477/2 "2020-06-29T04:46:08Z")

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"$if($eql(%title%,%album%),yes,no)" IS yes

You can find this and other things in the Help (F1).

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**Author:** ![stackedbeer](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@stackedbeer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/stackedbeer)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 5:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/applying-filter-to-match-two-strings/49477/3 "2020-06-29T05:08:25Z")

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Oh yes! Thank you 🙂

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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:** [February 9, 2026, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/applying-filter-to-match-two-strings/49477/4 "2026-02-09T12:28:41Z")

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