# Regex to fix year\\\\year and year\\\\year-month-day

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/regex-to-fix-year-year-and-year-year-month-day/41379
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 9, 2018, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/regex-to-fix-year-year-and-year-year-month-day/41379 "2018-04-09T12:26:54Z")
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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2018, 12:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/regex-to-fix-year-year-and-year-year-month-day/41379/2 "2018-04-09T12:54:20Z")

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Hi and welcome 🙂

It looks like the files have multiple year fields (you can inspect them individually via the extended tag dialog at Alt + T).

The easiest way to remove them is to use an action "Remove duplicate fields". See this topic for more on actions (in case it's needed).

> [@Actions and batch-operations](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-and-batch-operations/967):
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> Mp3tag provides a variety of actions, which can be applied to filenames and tags. The actions are grouped together into named sets (action groups), which can be applied independently via Alt + 6. If you do not want to create a reusable action group for applying one single action, the Actions (Quick) toolbar button or keyboard shortcut Shift + Alt + 6 can be used. How to [create a new action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions/967/2)? How to ... [change upper/lower case of tag fields or filenames](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions/967/3)? [replace the string “xyz” in tag-fields …](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions/967/4)

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