# Duplicate year fields on random tracks **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-year-fields-on-random-tracks/44164 **Category:** Support **Created:** [January 11, 2019, 1:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-year-fields-on-random-tracks/44164 "2019-01-11T01:46:51Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### 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: [January 11, 2019, 6:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-year-fields-on-random-tracks/44164/2 "2019-01-11T06:22:00Z")
> [@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 > [@Two year tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/two-year-tags/14761): > > I've noticed that if I tag the year field like "XXXX-XX-XX", it won't appear like that on Winamp. However, if I tag the year field like that using TagScanner, Winamp has no problem and shows it just like that. But after tagging the year field on TagScanner and checking the tag on Mp3tag, it shows two year tags. I just want Winamp to show the year tag like that; year, month, day. First, I always get the album info using MusicBrainz Picard and it tags the year field like "XXXX-XX-XX". Then I get … and this one that tells you how to unify or get rid of fields with several instances: > [@YEAR extracting the TWO values](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-extracting-the-two-values/15824): > > I have quite a few MP3s with two values set against the YEAR tag. 3 views that show what I mean. Select MP3 file and in the Tag Panel in the year field the following is shown "2013\\2013-11-22" In the Extended Tags I can see two instances of YEAR (2013 and 2013-11-22) In the Columns on the main screen I have specified YEAR to be %year% in both value and field BUT just 2013 is shown. OK..I have tried merging the field, removing the field (in the hope the 2nd guy will remaim ;-)) I have tried… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-year-fields-on-random-tracks/44164)._