# Replace Data in Embedded Cuesheet
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-data-in-embedded-cuesheet/11332
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 23, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-data-in-embedded-cuesheet/11332 "2010-12-23T16:41:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Flasshe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Flasshe)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-data-in-embedded-cuesheet/11332/1 "2010-12-23T16:41:50Z")
First of all, let me say how much I love mp3tag. I've been using it for over a year and it's one of the most robust pieces of software I've ever used. Florian, you have a wonderful product.
I would like to know if this is possible. I have .flac files with embedded cuesheets (created by EAC/REACT2). Could I use an action in mp3tag to replace some specific data within the cuesheet (the metadata CUESHEET tag) with some other data?
Specifically, I would like to add the year of the album to the beginning of the filename (the FILE field). For example, I would want to change this (the first part of CUESHEET):
REM DISCNUMBER 1
REM TOTALDISCS 1
REM GENRE Rock/Pop
REM DATE 1994
REM DISCID A70C310B
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb5"
PERFORMER "Oasis"
TITLE "Definitely Maybe"
FILE "Oasis - Definitely Maybe.flac" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
[...]
to this:
REM DISCNUMBER 1
REM TOTALDISCS 1
REM GENRE Rock/Pop
REM DATE 1994
REM DISCID A70C310B
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb5"
PERFORMER "Oasis"
TITLE "Definitely Maybe"
FILE "Oasis - [1994] Definitely Maybe.flac" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
[...]
Leaving everything the same except the FILE field.
Thanks much!
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2010, 10:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-data-in-embedded-cuesheet/11332/2 "2010-12-24T10:36:32Z")
> [@Flasshe](#):
>
> ... Could I use an action in mp3tag to replace some specific data within the cuesheet (the metadata CUESHEET tag) with some other data?
> Specifically, I would like to add the year of the album to the beginning of the filename (the FILE field). For example, I would want to change this (the first part of CUESHEET):
> REM DISCNUMBER 1
> REM TOTALDISCS 1
> REM GENRE Rock/Pop
> REM DATE 1994
> REM DISCID A70C310B
> REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb5"
> PERFORMER "Oasis"
> TITLE "Definitely Maybe"
> FILE "Oasis - Definitely Maybe.flac" WAVE
> TRACK 01 AUDIO
> [...]
> to this:
> REM DISCNUMBER 1
> REM TOTALDISCS 1
> REM GENRE Rock/Pop
> REM DATE 1994
> REM DISCID A70C310B
> REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb5"
> PERFORMER "Oasis"
> TITLE "Definitely Maybe"
> FILE "Oasis - [1994] Definitely Maybe.flac" WAVE
> TRACK 01 AUDIO
> [...]
> Leaving everything the same except the FILE field. ...
Supposing the cuesheet text data is available in a tag-field named CUESHEET, and the year value can be derived from the statement REM DATE, then this action can help:
Begin Action Group **Test 2010#20101224.Flasshe**
Action #1
_Actiontype 5:_ **Format value**
_Field:_ **TMP\_CUESHEET**
_Formatstring:_ **$replace($regexp(%CUESHEET%,'^(._?)(FILE÷".+?÷-)(.+?"÷WAVE)(._?)$','$1$2÷[YYYY]$3$4'),'[YYYY]',$regexp(%CUESHEET%,'^._?REM÷DATE÷(\d\d\d\d)._$','[$1]'))**
_Note: Replace each special ÷ character with one space character._
End Action Group **Test 2010#20101224.Flasshe** (1 Action)
This will create a temporary tag-field TMP\_CUESHEET just for the test purpose.
If it works fine, then the original CUESHEET tag-field can be overwritten by the TMP\_CUESHEET content, and the tag-field TMP\_CUESHEET can be removed.
Or the other way is to overwrite the original content of the tag-field CUESHEET with the previous action in one go, using the tag-field CUESHEET as target.
DD.20101224.1238.CET
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### Author:  [@Flasshe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Flasshe)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-data-in-embedded-cuesheet/11332/3 "2010-12-24T14:42:22Z")
That is exactly what I wanted. Works great!! Thanks so much!
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2010, 5:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-data-in-embedded-cuesheet/11332/4 "2010-12-25T05:15:56Z")
The Formatstring can be done shorter.
Begin Action Group **Test 2010#20101224.Flasshe.2**
Action #1
_Actiontype 5:_ **Format value**
_Field:_ **TMP\_CUESHEET**
_Formatstring:_ **$regexp(%CUESHEET%,'^(._?REM÷DATE÷)(\d\d\d\d)(._?FILE÷".+?÷-)(.+?"÷WAVE)(.\*?)$','$1$2$3÷[$2]$4')**
_Note: Replace each special ÷ character with one space character._
End Action Group **Test 2010#20101224.Flasshe.2** (1 Action)
DD.20101225.0717.CET
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### Author:  [@Flasshe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Flasshe)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-data-in-embedded-cuesheet/11332/5 "2010-12-25T23:47:43Z")
Thanks, that worked as well. My renaming is complete and I'm very happy today!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-data-in-embedded-cuesheet/11332/6 "2026-02-09T12:22:46Z")