Hi, new User here (so I will apologise, as I'm sure this will have been raised on here somewhere before). Have used to fill in all Artist & Track details (mostly manually, as didn't realise I could do automatically). Don't abuse me, it's an age thing!! :smile: Before I lose another month of my l…

Apart from the problem that artist and title hardly define the release year of a track ... see e.g. here: [image] Have artist and title - need year Support Hi, I've been using mp3tag to manually edit my mp3s with great success. I have a few thousand songs (many actually),…

Thank you for very quick response. So, if I understand, I am looking to auto-retrieve YEAR then? How can I do this?

[image] Woodssi: So, if I understand, I am looking to auto-retrieve YEAR then? How..? The already linked thread shows some proposals. Please note that unless you have several files that belong to an album, you have to tag each file individually and call the web source separately for each fi…

Ahh, I see. So, would be useful for Albums, but time-consuming for Singles. I appreciate your assistance.

[image] Woodssi: time-consuming for Singles Exactly. That's how it is.

Not sure this helps, but... I organize all my files into folders by composer/composition with the individual files for all the movements or scenes (opera) in numerical order. If I need to make a mass update to all the files in a folder, I open the folder, highlight all the tracks (ctrl-a), and type…

How to Auto Tag (DATE ONLY)?

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ohrenkino May 28, 2019, 12:03pm 2

Apart from the problem that artist and title hardly define the release year of a track ...
see e.g. here:

There is no DATE field - there is the most common field YEAR and sometimes RELEASETIME.
See the help on a list of supported fields: