# Check Revise My Filter, Please

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/check-revise-my-filter-please/70397
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 22, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/check-revise-my-filter-please/70397 "2025-12-22T14:26:03Z")
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### Author: ![ragtag](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ragtag/32/13146_2.png) [@ragtag](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ragtag)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 8:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/check-revise-my-filter-please/70397/7 "2025-12-25T08:52:59Z")

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Hello again, Everyone!

Once again, I am stuck for a filter-syntax, and needing your expertise in the field. I think this belongs to this particular topic, but if you disagree I shall create a new post for it. This too, is a follow-up question to this thread:

[Assistance Needed to Rename Files More Efficiently](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/assistance-needed-to-rename-files-more-efficiently/70354)

My current combined filter, thanks to you previous input, looks like this:

`%discnumber% IS 1 AND NOT %_filename% MATCHES (\d+\-\d+) OR %albumartist% IS various artists OR %_filename% HAS (HTOA) OR %album% IS Unknown`

My objective now, is to add a filter with which to identify those albums that ought to have "Various Artists" in the %albumartist% field, but do not. These occur rarely, and are therefore easily missed. Without elaborating further, I can point that the only constant by which I can identify these albums is that they have the %artist% name in the filename, already.

Thank you.

PS. Would this, perhaps, achieve the goal? `%_filename% MATCHES (\d+\%artist%\d+)`

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