# How to Auto Tag (DATE ONLY)? **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-auto-tag-date-only/45556 **Category:** Support **Created:** [May 28, 2019, 11:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-auto-tag-date-only/45556 "2019-05-28T11:42:11Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### 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: [May 28, 2019, 12:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-auto-tag-date-only/45556/2 "2019-05-28T12:03:49Z")
Apart from the problem that artist and title hardly define the release year of a track ... see e.g. here: > [@Have artist and title - need year](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/have-artist-and-title-need-year/11779): > > Hi, I've been using mp3tag to manually edit my mp3s with great success. I have a few thousand songs (many actually), with correct artist and title tags only, but no year tag. Now I want to use "tag sources" to get only the year tag (ideally the fist year of release of any particular song), and possibly (but not necessarily) the genre tag. First I tried freedb, but for any given track, the results were always wrong, it never got the song right. So I then tried musicbrainz, which pops up a box "Se… There is no DATE field - there is the most common field YEAR and sometimes RELEASETIME. See the help on a list of supported fields: > **[Tag Field Mappings – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/mapping/)** > > Overview of all available tag fields, their names in Mp3tag, and how they are mapped to the internal structures of the different tag formats. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-auto-tag-date-only/45556)._