# Recently year shows in year//year fromat in Tag-Panel? Why?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/recently-year-shows-in-year-year-fromat-in-tag-panel-why/6448
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 14, 2008, 8:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/recently-year-shows-in-year-year-fromat-in-tag-panel-why/6448 "2008-03-14T08:55:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@SerialK](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/SerialK)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2008, 8:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/recently-year-shows-in-year-year-fromat-in-tag-panel-why/6448/1 "2008-03-14T08:55:39Z")
Hi,
The years saved in the tags used to show as e.g. "1994" in the year column of the filelist, as well as in the tag-panel for the selected file.
Lately my Mp3Tag shows it as e.g. "1994//1994" in the tag-panel, but in the filelist it's still "1994"..
I updated Mp3Tag some days ago and i'm not sure whether it was like that before..
Is it a bug or some kind of feature? I have no idea what the sense of the double year should be.. Different Id-tag Versions?
Also, my MediaMonkey finds hundreds of "unsynchronized Tags" which is also new.. In 99% it's the year which it says is not synchronized.
I fear it has something todo with this Mp3Tag year problem.
Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2008, 10:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/recently-year-shows-in-year-year-fromat-in-tag-panel-why/6448/2 "2008-03-14T10:30:20Z")
That's because Mediamonkey writes two year frames to the file.
[http://mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23192](http://mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23192)
[http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/index.p...=62&nav=0,9](http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=62&nav=0,9)
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### Author:  [@SerialK](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/SerialK)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/recently-year-shows-in-year-year-fromat-in-tag-panel-why/6448/3 "2008-03-16T01:33:27Z")
Thank you very much! That was the perfect solution!
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### Author:  [@speaker](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/speaker)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/recently-year-shows-in-year-year-fromat-in-tag-panel-why/6448/4 "2008-03-22T00:40:30Z")
Is there a way for mp3tag to automatically overwrite this into a normal 4 digit year? I tried using the following, but it didn't work:
$right(%year%,4)
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/recently-year-shows-in-year-year-fromat-in-tag-panel-why/6448/5 "2008-03-22T19:33:42Z")
This trick should work:
Action #1:
_Action type:_ **Format value**
_Field:_ **YEAR**
_Formatstring:_ **x%year%**
Action #2:
_Action type:_ **Replace**
_Field:_ **YEAR**
_Original:_ **x**
_Replace with:_
[] only as whole word
[] case-sensitive comparison
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### Author:  [@speaker](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/speaker)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/recently-year-shows-in-year-year-fromat-in-tag-panel-why/6448/6 "2008-03-24T04:26:13Z")
Thanks dano, but that didn't work. After doing some studying it appears the problem is the DATE tag. I set up an action to remove that and it solves it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/recently-year-shows-in-year-year-fromat-in-tag-panel-why/6448/7 "2026-02-09T12:20:50Z")