# Extended Tags
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extended-tags/7588
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 7, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extended-tags/7588 "2008-12-07T21:14:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@TuB](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TuB)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extended-tags/7588/1 "2008-12-07T21:14:16Z")
First let me thank you for your great app! I'm using it for a while now (at 1%!).
I noticed a few strange behaviour of WMP11 when displaying songs after beeing tagged :
I got rid of this issue by clearing BAND Metadata (which seem to override Artist data in WMP11) using ALT+T panel.
Any means to display other metadata in mp3 columns so that I'd know they exist and could easily delete them?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2008, 7:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extended-tags/7588/2 "2008-12-08T07:07:41Z")
Read here: [Tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/965/1)
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### Author:  [@Lare2](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Lare2)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extended-tags/7588/3 "2008-12-09T20:10:59Z")
I own a Zune 80 player  and have the same problem as you because the software also uses the " **band**" tag.
You can Synchronize what you have on your % **artist** % tag to the % **band** % one with a quick action and the following steps.
1.- Select the files you want to change
2.- Click "Actions (quick)" Button
3.- Select "Format Value"
4.- Enter The following parameters
[](http://imageshack.us)
[](http://g.imageshack.us/img132/20081209150055xm0.png/1/)
5.- Click Ok
You can save it as an "Action Group" to have it at hand with one click.
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### Author:  [@k000](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/k000)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extended-tags/7588/4 "2009-01-05T19:15:48Z")
QUOTE (Lare2 @ Dec 9 2008, 16:10) \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\>
I own a Zune 80 player  and have the same problem as you because the software also uses the " **band**" tag.
You can Synchronize what you have on your % **artist** % tag to the % **band** % one with a quick action and the following steps.
1.- Select the files you want to change
2.- Click "Actions (quick)" Button
3.- Select "Format Value"
4.- Enter The following parameters
[🙂
I also bought the Zune 120 around xmas, and was bafled to change band... did not know that MP3 tags can be changed this way... i.e., with varaibles.. is there a list of all available variables that I can use ?](http://imageshack.us)
I mostly end up using Fixtag (from sourceforge) just to use the Directory or Parent-directory names to be used in Albums or Artists sometimes... if I can use those variables from mp3tag - that would make this as one stop shop for all tag editing for me 🙂
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extended-tags/7588/5 "2009-01-06T18:57:11Z")
There's %\_directory% and %\_parent\_directory% placeholders. You can also click on the little right arrow to get a list of placeholders.
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### Author:  [@k000](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/k000)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2009, 4:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extended-tags/7588/6 "2009-01-07T04:05:04Z")
love you, love you, love you...
I swear I can write a song for you guys 🙂
Needless to say that I will be sending Paypal money to you guys tomorrow (when I have Paypal secure key in hand
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### Author:  [@k000](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/k000)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extended-tags/7588/7 "2009-01-07T20:25:37Z")
> [@k000](#):
>
> love you, love you, love you...
>
> I swear I can write a song for you guys 🙂
>
> Needless to say that I will be sending Paypal money to you guys tomorrow (when I have Paypal secure key in hand
kept my promise and Paypaled you guys... thanks a lot 🙂
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extended-tags/7588/8 "2009-01-07T20:56:09Z")
That's very nice, thanks
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### Author:  [@k000](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/k000)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extended-tags/7588/9 "2009-01-08T17:19:15Z")
dano - I could not find %\_parent\_directory% via any of the placeholders when I clicked on the right button... but use the %\_parent\_directory% as provided by you, and it has worked very well indeed.
Is it a glitch that I am not seeing %\_parent\_directory% ? (Just wanted to point it out...) perhaps you could tell me where exactly is it as I checked under Extended... Information... etc etc but did not see anywhere.
I would hate to miss any more that I could use, you see 😉
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extended-tags/7588/10 "2009-01-08T19:18:39Z")
It's not there, seems it was forgotten.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extended-tags/7588/11 "2026-02-09T12:21:14Z")