# Copied tags from MP3 to FLAC creates additional year entry

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copied-tags-from-mp3-to-flac-creates-additional-year-entry/58673>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [October 3, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copied-tags-from-mp3-to-flac-creates-additional-year-entry/58673 "2022-10-03T16:53:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![update.freak](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/ecd19e/32.png) [@update.freak](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/update.freak)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copied-tags-from-mp3-to-flac-creates-additional-year-entry/58673/1 "2022-10-03T16:53:46Z")

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Hi developer,

I have noticed that when I delete the tags from FLAC-files and then insert the tags from the same song in MP3-format to the FLAC-file then the FLAC file has an additional year tag (which the MP3-file not have). I attached a picture where you can see that the MP3-file has only 2022 and the FLAC-file has 1609\2022. I'm not sure if this is a bug from mp3tag, but maybe you could have a look at that.

 ![problem](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d3dd36393511042f641bbb1b5831b9eadb32bcd6.png)

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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:** [October 3, 2022, 5:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copied-tags-from-mp3-to-flac-creates-additional-year-entry/58673/2 "2022-10-03T17:43:34Z")

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What does File\>Options\>Mapping show?

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**Author:** ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copied-tags-from-mp3-to-flac-creates-additional-year-entry/58673/3 "2022-10-03T18:59:01Z")

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It's most likely correctly mapped to `DATE` — but the source MP3 file has an ID3v2.3 tag with a `DATE` frame holding the actual date value that's then also stored as FLAC `DATE`.

You'd need to manually cleanup those. `DATE` is used for the year in VorbisComments used by FLAC and there is no way to detect this case.

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**Author:** ![update.freak](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/ecd19e/32.png) [@update.freak](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/update.freak)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2022, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copied-tags-from-mp3-to-flac-creates-additional-year-entry/58673/4 "2022-10-03T19:42:03Z")

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Thanks for the quick answer. Yes then the year must be corrected manually.

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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:** [November 2, 2022, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copied-tags-from-mp3-to-flac-creates-additional-year-entry/58673/5 "2022-11-02T19:42:20Z")

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