# How to edit unwanted extra year tag info

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-edit-unwanted-extra-year-tag-info/11629
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 23, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-edit-unwanted-extra-year-tag-info/11629 "2011-02-23T15:47:27Z")
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### Author: ![gebak](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@gebak](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gebak)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-edit-unwanted-extra-year-tag-info/11629/1 "2011-02-23T15:47:27Z")

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Hello everybody,

I retagged thousand of files by year, artist, title.

However, the format of the tag was e.g. 1867[cd][mv] Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra - An Der Schönen Blauen Donau

How to delete the characters behind the year "[cd][mv]" i have thousand of files with this.

Tried replace with regular expressions but won't work.

I want to keep the year in the tag but loose the [cd][mv] part.

Please help, thanks a million.

Gerard

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### Author: ![pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/pone/32/272_2.png) [@pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pone)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2011, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-edit-unwanted-extra-year-tag-info/11629/2 "2011-02-23T16:30:09Z")

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There are more ways to do that. I think the simplest one is:

Action: Format Value  
Field: YEAR  
Formatstring: $left(%year%,4)

This gives you simply the leftmost 4 characters %year%.  
When "1867[cd][mv] Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra - An Der Schönen Blauen Donau" is not the YEAR **tag-field** you have to replace %year% with the appropiate field name. When it is the filename use $left(%\_filename%,4).

See here [https://docs.mp3tag.de/scripting](https://docs.mp3tag.de/scripting) for other opitions to achieve your goal.

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### Author: ![gebak](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@gebak](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gebak)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2011, 5:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-edit-unwanted-extra-year-tag-info/11629/3 "2011-02-23T17:43:59Z")

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Thanks a zillion, this was the solution! 😃

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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, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-edit-unwanted-extra-year-tag-info/11629/4 "2026-02-09T12:22:56Z")

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