# Duplicate title field or custom create field
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-title-field-or-custom-create-field/65051
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 15, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-title-field-or-custom-create-field/65051 "2024-06-15T21:16:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@mbrazil05](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mbrazil05)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-title-field-or-custom-create-field/65051/1 "2024-06-15T21:16:28Z")
By default one of the fields in MP3Tag is Title, is there a way to create a 2nd Title field called "Title 2" or in the alternative, is there a way I can move the contents of the "Title Fields" to user created filed.. called "holdinfohere" in MP3TAG.
Why do I want to do this? I'm trying to get genre and tags on a bunch of remix tracks and because the tracks have extra info such as (djxyz, or discoedit), its hard for other programs to identify the track title in order to get the correct year and genre.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 9:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-title-field-or-custom-create-field/65051/2 "2024-06-15T21:21:45Z")
> [@mbrazil05](#):
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> , is there a way I can move the contents of the "Title Fields" to user created filed.. called "holdinfohere" in MP3TAG.
Create an action of the type "Format value" or use Convert\>Tag-Tag for field HOLDINFOHERE (if that is not in the list, type it in)
Format string: %title%
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### Author:  [@mbrazil05](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mbrazil05)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 9:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-title-field-or-custom-create-field/65051/3 "2024-06-15T21:24:28Z")
I'm sorry but I don't understand.
If I create an action Format value what do I put?
in the alternative, using the Convert\>Tag-Tag how do I create HOLDINFOHERE and have it write to the mp3track?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 9:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-title-field-or-custom-create-field/65051/4 "2024-06-15T21:27:05Z")
Load the files that you want to treat.
Select the files that you want to treat.
Open Convert\>Tag-Tag.
Set as Field HOLDINFOHERE.
Type in as Format string: %title%
This copies the contents of TITLE to HOLDINFOHERE
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### Author:  [@mbrazil05](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mbrazil05)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-title-field-or-custom-create-field/65051/5 "2024-06-15T21:30:28Z")
oK..but where is HOLDINFOHERE column? followed the above steps and it appeared to have worked but can't find that column
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-title-field-or-custom-create-field/65051/6 "2024-06-15T21:31:18Z")
You have to create the column.
Or use the extended tags dialogue Alt-T
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### Author:  [@mbrazil05](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mbrazil05)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-title-field-or-custom-create-field/65051/7 "2024-06-15T21:34:02Z")
When I press Alt-T I see it but when I go to columns I don't see it . what am i'm missing
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-title-field-or-custom-create-field/65051/8 "2024-06-15T21:34:53Z")
> [@mbrazil05](#):
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> what am i'm missing
You have not created the column.
> **[File List – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/customization/file-list/)**
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> Customization options for the File List, including adding, removing, hiding, and rearranging of columns. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
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### Author:  [@mbrazil05](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mbrazil05)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 9:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-title-field-or-custom-create-field/65051/9 "2024-06-15T21:39:10Z")
OK.. I followed the instructions below,but it does not put the contents of %title% into the HOLDINFOHERE tag
Load the files that you want to treat.
Select the files that you want to treat.
Open Convert\>Tag-Tag.
Set as Field HOLDINFOHERE.
Type in as Format string: %title%
This copies the contents of TITLE to HOLDINFOHERE
am i'm suppose to add some type of value in the value tag?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 9:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-title-field-or-custom-create-field/65051/10 "2024-06-15T21:41:53Z")
Please show me Convert\>tag-tag as a screenshot.
(I actually do not understand as you stated before
> [@mbrazil05](#):
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> When I press Alt-T I see it
which means that the process was successful.
The converter does not create columns.
MP3tag never creates columns on its own. You have to add a new column.
And that is described in the linked documentation.
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### Author:  [@mbrazil05](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mbrazil05)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 9:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-title-field-or-custom-create-field/65051/11 "2024-06-15T21:45:22Z")
ok.. here is a picture. i can see the info when i press ALT-T (yellow) but when i open my columns in the program. nothing shows (green).
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 9:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-title-field-or-custom-create-field/65051/12 "2024-06-15T21:47:03Z")
Now please show me the parameters that you entered to create the column.
Please note - from the documentation:
To configure a column, you need to provide a **Name** , which is the text that appears on the column header in the File List.
**Value** is required and denotes the content displayed in this column. It usually contains a [placeholder](https://docs.mp3tag.de/format), sometimes combined with [scripting functions](https://docs.mp3tag.de/scripting).
A simple example would be `%ISRC%`, the placeholder for the `ISRC` tag field. Another example would be `$meta_sep(artist,\\)`, a format string that displays all existing `ARTIST` fields separated by Mp3tag multi-field separator `\\`
**Field** usually contains a placeholder that is used for editing the content of the field through the File List. Please note that if this field is empty, the column is write-protected. You can only use placeholders for tag fields (e.g. `%ISRC%`) as well as `%_filename_ext%` and `%_filename%` here.
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### Author:  [@mbrazil05](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mbrazil05)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-title-field-or-custom-create-field/65051/13 "2024-06-15T21:49:47Z")
you just lost me.. I have no clue what you mean by any of this. Can you show me an example of a column called HOLDINFOHERE and what values should be assigned so when copy the contents into the column they will display?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 9:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-title-field-or-custom-create-field/65051/14 "2024-06-15T21:52:13Z")
If you compare your settings and that what the documenation says you will find that you did not enter anything in Value and Field.
Use %HOLDINFOHERE% for both.
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### Author:  [@mbrazil05](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mbrazil05)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 10:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-title-field-or-custom-create-field/65051/15 "2024-06-15T22:11:14Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> %HOLDINFOHERE%
THANK YOU. that did it....
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### Author:  [@mbrazil05](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mbrazil05)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 10:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-title-field-or-custom-create-field/65051/16 "2024-06-15T22:34:49Z")
one last thing.. how do i delete the content of the column once 'm finish wit it?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2024, 5:34am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-title-field-or-custom-create-field/65051/17 "2024-06-16T05:34:49Z")
> [@mbrazil05](#):
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> how do i delete the content of the column once 'm finish wit it?
Select the files
Open the extended tags dialogue Alt-T
Select the field(s) that you want to delete.
Click on the red X button or select the function "Remove" from the right-click menu.
Save the modification with clicking OK until the extended tags dialogue is closed.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2024, 5:34am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-title-field-or-custom-create-field/65051/18 "2024-07-16T05:34:57Z")
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