# Making multiple changes in one move
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/making-multiple-changes-in-one-move/65280
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 13, 2024, 10:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/making-multiple-changes-in-one-move/65280 "2024-07-13T22:36:57Z")
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### Author:  [@cmach1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cmach1)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2024, 10:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/making-multiple-changes-in-one-move/65280/1 "2024-07-13T22:36:57Z")
Here's my example. I have a folder titled
**De Wolfe DW\_LP 2975 - Town Beat (1966)**
I want to put that text in the album field using tag-tag, but I would like to not include the **(1966)** portion and I would also like to replace the underscore with a forward slash. So that it ends up looking like this in the album field:
**De Wolfe DW/LP 2975 - Town Beat**
I have used $cutright(%\_directory%, 7) to eliminate the year, but that still leaves the underscore-forward slash issue. So as of now, I can't make all the necessary changes I want in one move. Is it possible to do this?
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### Author:  [@rboss](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rboss)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2024, 12:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/making-multiple-changes-in-one-move/65280/2 "2024-07-14T00:46:10Z")
You'll need to chain the functions together. This is called nesting.
Mp3Tag has the `$replace(string,from,to)` function, where `string` is what will be evaluated, `from` is what is to be replaced, and ` to` is what `from` is to be replaced with.
Building from your example,
`$replace($cutright(%_directory%,7),_,/)`
This reads: "Replace all instances of "\_" with "/" in `string`, where `string` is `$cutright(%_directory%, 7)`".
Hope this helps.
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### Author:  [@cmach1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cmach1)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2024, 1:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/making-multiple-changes-in-one-move/65280/3 "2024-07-14T01:00:12Z")
> [@rboss](#):
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> $replace($cutright(%_directory%,7),_,/)
That worked beautifully. Thank you.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2024, 6:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/making-multiple-changes-in-one-move/65280/4 "2024-07-14T06:39:15Z")
> [@cmach1](#):
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> Here's my example. I have a folder titled
> **De Wolfe DW\_LP 2975 - Town Beat (1966)**
>
> I want to put that text in the album field using tag-tag
I find this apporach most astounding:
Why the restriction to do it
> [@cmach1](#):
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> in one move
and why the restriction to do it with
> [@cmach1](#):
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> tag-tag
?
Of course, there are many ways to scin a cat but if you have found a way to get the data from the
> [@cmach1](#):
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> folder
into the album field, then the syntax should already be clear for Convert\>Filename-Tag:
`%album% (%dummy%)\%dummy%)`
The almost equivalent as an action for the converter is "Guess value".
So the souce in "Guess value" would be:
Source string: `$replace(%_directory%,_,/)`
Target format string: `%album% (%dummy%)`
This has the discrete charme not to fail because the year is shorter or longer.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 6:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/making-multiple-changes-in-one-move/65280/5 "2024-08-13T06:40:10Z")
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