# Help me stitch the year to the album name on the album name field
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-me-stitch-the-year-to-the-album-name-on-the-album-name-field/41731
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 19, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-me-stitch-the-year-to-the-album-name-on-the-album-name-field/41731 "2018-05-19T18:39:09Z")
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### Author:  [@displayName](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/displayName)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-me-stitch-the-year-to-the-album-name-on-the-album-name-field/41731/1 "2018-05-19T18:39:09Z")
I'm basically trying to have album "Album Name" released in 2000 renamed to "2000 - Album Name", so that I can batch rename all albums this way.
Using the "replace" action on the album field, I tried to pass in " **%album%**" as the _Original_ value, and " **%year% - %album%**" (with the dash) as the _Replace with_ value but it ended up doing nothing.
How can I achieve this?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2018, 6:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-me-stitch-the-year-to-the-album-name-on-the-album-name-field/41731/2 "2018-05-19T18:42:32Z")
see the FAQs:
> [@Actions and batch-operations](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-and-batch-operations/967/5):
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> How to append the string " xyz" to the content of a tag field? Create a [new action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions/967/2) in an existing action group and choose Format value as action type. Field specifies the tag field the formatting rule should be applied to. Format string must have the field placeholder for the field selected above and the string which should be appended. Example: If you want to append the string " xyz" to the current value of the comment field: Action type: Format value Field: COMMENT Format string: %com…
Use the
format string %year% - %album%
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### Author:  [@displayName](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/displayName)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2018, 6:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-me-stitch-the-year-to-the-album-name-on-the-album-name-field/41731/3 "2018-05-19T18:50:26Z")
Seems I was looking too far for this.
Anyway, you're a legend, thanks ohrenkino,
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-me-stitch-the-year-to-the-album-name-on-the-album-name-field/41731/4 "2026-02-09T12:27:26Z")