# Help converting YEAR field YYYY-MM-DD to multiple fields in Mp3tag for FLAC files

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-converting-year-field-yyyy-mm-dd-to-multiple-fields-in-mp3tag-for-flac-files/70055
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**Created:** [October 29, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-converting-year-field-yyyy-mm-dd-to-multiple-fields-in-mp3tag-for-flac-files/70055 "2025-10-29T15:54:00Z")
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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 29, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-converting-year-field-yyyy-mm-dd-to-multiple-fields-in-mp3tag-for-flac-files/70055/3 "2025-10-29T17:44:44Z")

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> [@Sithko](#):
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> How to safely extract the month to TRACK.

Wasn't that already solved in this thread:

> [@Script/Format to Extract Month from Year for Track Number](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/script-format-to-extract-month-from-year-for-track-number/68482):
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> Hello everyone, I'm trying to achieve something specific with Mp3tag and would appreciate some guidance. I have FLAC and MP3 files, and I need to extract the month from the information stored in the 'Year' field. My goal is to then populate the 'Track Number' field with this extracted month (as a two-digit number, e.g., '01' for January, '12' for December). Could someone please provide a script or tag formatting sequence that would allow me to extract only the month from the 'Year' field and …

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