# CHANGE to Earliest Year if Title & Artist if the same
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-to-earliest-year-if-title-artist-if-the-same/67389
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 5, 2025, 5:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-to-earliest-year-if-title-artist-if-the-same/67389 "2025-02-05T05:08:27Z")
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### Author:  [@mbrazil05](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mbrazil05)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2025, 5:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-to-earliest-year-if-title-artist-if-the-same/67389/1 "2025-02-05T05:08:27Z")
I have a few tracks that are the same except the YEAR is different. Is there anyway I can run an action that will change the year to the earliest year if all other info is the same (see example). In this particular case, i want to switch the year from 2001 to 1974 and leave all other info the same.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2025, 5:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-to-earliest-year-if-title-artist-if-the-same/67389/2 "2025-02-05T05:52:04Z")
As MP3tag does not compare data from different files, it is not possible to
> [@mbrazil05](#):
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> change the year to the earliest year
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2025, 7:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-to-earliest-year-if-title-artist-if-the-same/67389/3 "2025-02-05T07:15:07Z")
Just as a side info:
The ARTIST “Ohio Players” has released the song “[Fire](https://musicbrainz.org/recording/1b07acdb-9b8c-4115-bcec-b2c593f6161a)" several times over the years from 1974 to 2021:
I'm not sure if your song from 2001 is really the same as the 2 others from 1974.
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### Author:  [@mbrazil05](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mbrazil05)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-to-earliest-year-if-title-artist-if-the-same/67389/4 "2025-02-05T14:30:29Z")
An Aside to your aside: its the exact same song. depending on where it's downloaded from will it contain a different year. for instance, MJ only release one song called "Beat It". Despite the remixes, etc, etc.. The original "Beat it" has the same date and that's what I want, the original release date of the song and not the dates of the remixes out there.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-to-earliest-year-if-title-artist-if-the-same/67389/5 "2025-02-05T14:45:19Z")
> [@mbrazil05](#):
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> An Aside to your aside: its the exact same song
You say the song from 1974 (recorded on Vinyl) is exactly the same as the song from 2001 (released from at least two different Labels on CD)?
Or do you say that the song from 2001 is just wrongly filled with the wrong year "2001"?
BTW:
[Beat it](https://musicbrainz.org/recording/de798de6-70fc-49f6-b580-339cd2e62052) from Michael Jackson was released in many different forms and lengths from 4:11 to 4:19 as Singles, part of Albums, Compilations and so on. 😉
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### Author:  [@mbrazil05](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mbrazil05)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-to-earliest-year-if-title-artist-if-the-same/67389/6 "2025-02-05T14:50:38Z")
Sir, my point is I'm not as discriminating, FOR ME. I just want the earliest possible date of recording. Nothing more, nothing less.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-to-earliest-year-if-title-artist-if-the-same/67389/7 "2025-02-05T14:51:45Z")
I see. Then I can only repeat: "No"
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> it is not possible
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-to-earliest-year-if-title-artist-if-the-same/67389/8 "2025-03-07T14:52:32Z")
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