Hey, Seemingly in random (both random tracks and random timing), Mp3Tag will mess up a track's year. It would change a track's year into a year//year format instead of simply year. For example, a song that came out in 2007 could be changed to display 2007//2007 in the year field, as opposed of cou…

We've found a solution to this issue. The files in question probably had duplicate year fields in the beginning (it's unknown how those were added) and most likely a series of actions applied to those files resulted in a single year field containing multiple values separated by \\, e.g., 2018\\2019.…

[image] Team_Horus: Mp3Tag will mess up a track's year. It would change a track's year into a year//year format instead of simply year. The question is: is MP3tag really the cause or just the messenger? See this thread which tells you something about the behaviour of other programs …

Hi! Thank you so much for you response. I'm running into some trouble trying to fix this as per the thread you've linked, as it seems the person who offered the solution does not speak English as his first language. Following his instructions, I received an alert from Mp3Tag after the action ran …

[image] Team_Horus: ...I entered into the SEPARATOR field is in fact 2 backslashes. Unfortunately, the two backslashes is the indicator for MP3tag to treat a field as intended multi-value field and split the found value into at least 2 fields. So if you merge duplicate fields but have the do…

Hi again, Let me preface this by saying that I'm an obviously not an expert and as such don't really know the inner working of Mp3Tag or have some in-depth knowledge about tags in general. In fact I'm quite the technophobe who happens to like music a lot, so your help and patience is greatly apprec…

[image] Team_Horus: How do I go about removing just one value from the YEAR field? Use an action Remove duplicate fields

@Florian Thanks for your response, but this hasn't done anything at all.

[image] Team_Horus: this hasn't done anything at all. Please check again. At least the file [image] Team_Horus: ALBUM A Fine Day to Exit ARTIST Anathema ENCODEDBY Lavf52.16.0 TITLE Panic TRACK 7 YEAR 2001 YEAR 2001 should after it has been treated by an action of the type "Remo…

Have checked again. As previously mentioned, only the year in the main screen is changed to single value, while the year in the Extended Tags and in the edit window on the left retains the double value.

I'd like to resolve this quickly. Can you just send me one of the offending files?

Duplicate year fields on random tracks

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ohrenkino January 11, 2019, 6:22am 2

The question is: is MP3tag really the cause or just the messenger?
See this thread which tells you something about the behaviour of other programs

and this one that tells you how to unify or get rid of fields with several instances: