# How to feed automatically ONLY the year field from tag sources (freed, discos...)

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-feed-automatically-only-the-year-field-from-tag-sources-freed-discos/46093
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 6, 2019, 7:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-feed-automatically-only-the-year-field-from-tag-sources-freed-discos/46093 "2019-08-06T07:28:59Z")
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### Author: ![fracta](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/d07c76/32.png) [@fracta](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fracta)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2019, 7:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-feed-automatically-only-the-year-field-from-tag-sources-freed-discos/46093/1 "2019-08-06T07:28:59Z")

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Hello,

on my mp3 database, the field year is not always correct. How can I do to fill it in automatically from the tag sources freed, discogs...

today it is filling all the fields...and I dont know how to select a specific field.

thanks a lot

tracta

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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 6, 2019, 7:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-feed-automatically-only-the-year-field-from-tag-sources-freed-discos/46093/2 "2019-08-06T07:42:07Z")

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Here is a thread that says something about discogs:

> [@Bulk Update Year Field with Discog/Other Sites](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-update-year-field-with-discog-other-sites/15366):
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> Hi! I have finally decided to tackle the retagging of a fairly large library and have chosen Mp3Tag for the task (for fairly obvious reasons, I think laughing ) I have made good progress and am nearing the end of my task here, but something has just struck me - Many of my YEAR field do not represent the original release date, which is of course now what I would like to set the field as. Apologies if my previous searching did not find a relevant topic, but is it possible to have a script cra…

but as the script is not maintained any more...  
The scripts are all plain text, so you can edit them to remove any data you don't like

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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, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-feed-automatically-only-the-year-field-from-tag-sources-freed-discos/46093/3 "2026-02-09T12:28:12Z")

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