Good evening, When I add "year" from the Tag to an Album title in the Folder stucture I end up with 2 Folders. One with the renamed structure (Artist\Album (year)\Tracknumber - Track) and the old one with only the Folder.jpg. What would be the proper way to add the year to the Album Title in the …

[image] nhtrader: ... ERROR: Formatted tags in 0 of 12 files. 0 of 12 files renamed. Why do you declare this message as an error message? This is not an error message, but just a status message. And ... in this case the status message tells the truth. There have been no real tag-fields …

It would have been ever so nice if you had told us what you do to add year in the folder name. I assume that you use the converter tag-filename. If you used an action of the type "Format tag field" for _DIRECTORY then this would rename the directory but not create a new one. Please note that you …

[image] ohrenkino: It would have been ever so nice if you had told us what you do to add year in the folder name. I assume that you use the converter tag-filename. Yes, I should have, sorry [image] ohrenkino: If you used an action of the type "Format tag field" for _DIRECTORY then this …

[image] ohrenkino: If you used an action of the type "Format tag field" for _DIRECTORY then this would rename the directory but not create a new one. Please note that you only have to enter a mask for the directory - leave out the filename definition: %album% (%year%) I'm new to MP3tag, I d…

[image] nhtrader: I'm new to MP3tag, I don't know how to apply this solution. Where can I find the instructions for how to apply this solution? The FAQs. See at least /t/967/1 on how to create a new action.

[image] ohrenkino: The FAQs. See at least /t/967/1 on how to create a new action. Thank you. In following this link this is what I did and the error the resulted. 1a. selected one album (one folder) 1b. selected all 12 songs (b/c Menu option Actions is disabled until a song is selected) …

[image] nhtrader: ... What did I do wrong? I'd say: nothing. As you do not rename the files but the folder. Has the folder been renamed? Just a minor correction: I would use an apostrophe to add the square brackets as the square brackets in MP3tag syntax enclose optional strings. So the fo…

[image] ohrenkino: I'd say: nothing. As you do not rename the files but the folder. Has the folder been renamed? Just a minor correction: I would use an apostrophe to add the square brackets as the square brackets in MP3tag syntax enclose optional strings. So the format string should look like…

[image] DetlevD: Why do you declare this message as an error message? This is not an error message, but just a status message. And ... in this case the status message tells the truth. There have been no real tag-fields formatted. There have been no files renamed. Thank you for your help i…

Twelve years later, and I searched/found/used this tip. Thanks again to all who contribute to this forum.

Only to complete the information: This can also be found in the documentation. [image] Format Strings and Placeholders – Mp3tag Documentation Documentation on format strings and placeholders to describe the structure of file names and imported data. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor. …

How to add year to Folder "Album title"

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ohrenkino January 9, 2013, 6:42am 5

The FAQs.
See at least
/t/967/1
on how to create a new action.