# How can I copy year from Album to Year field

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-can-i-copy-year-from-album-to-year-field/15965>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [August 2, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-can-i-copy-year-from-album-to-year-field/15965 "2014-08-02T16:59:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Giri\_Babu](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@Giri\_Babu](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Giri_Babu)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-can-i-copy-year-from-album-to-year-field/15965/1 "2014-08-02T16:59:04Z")

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I have lots of albums with year at the end as showed below...

album (year)

Ex. Happy Days (1994)

Now I want to copy the year in to "year" field, which one contained the end of every album in between parenthesis.

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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:** [August 2, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-can-i-copy-year-from-album-to-year-field/15965/2 "2014-08-02T19:35:23Z")

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Try an action of the type "Import tag-field" for ALBUM  
Enter as import string: %album% (%year%)

The part for Year will be removed from ALBUM just as well as the parenthesis

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**Author:** ![Giri\_Babu](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@Giri\_Babu](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Giri_Babu)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-can-i-copy-year-from-album-to-year-field/15965/3 "2014-08-02T20:06:44Z")

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I not find any where "Import tag-field".

I used "Guess value" action.

Source format: %album%  
Guessing pattern: %album% (%year%)

It's worked fine. ![:rolleyes:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/3a79e8b0b7d169b30216785521d7c6f4f895c421.gif ":rolleyes:")

Thank you

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-can-i-copy-year-from-album-to-year-field/15965/4 "2026-02-09T12:25:10Z")

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Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC