# Reformating YEAR field

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reformating-year-field/17926
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 6, 2016, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reformating-year-field/17926 "2016-05-06T14:31:58Z")
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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: [May 6, 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reformating-year-field/17926/2 "2016-05-06T14:50:18Z")

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The \\ is MP3tag's representation of a multi-value field: you have at least 2 fields of the type YEAR in the files.

There are action to either merge the fields to one field (use a different separator than \\) or to delete all duplicate fields.

Or you have a look at the extended tags dialogue (Alt-T) and see the fields there and decide which field to delete.

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