# Search Amazon by %artist%

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/search-amazon-by-artist/8807>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [August 19, 2009, 8:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/search-amazon-by-artist/8807 "2009-08-19T08:46:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rtgjeg](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f19dbf/32.png) [@rtgjeg](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rtgjeg)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 8:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/search-amazon-by-artist/8807/1 "2009-08-19T08:46:44Z")

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I know I've done this before, but when I upgraded to 2.44, it stopped working.

When I retrieve tags from [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com), it defaults to a search by %album%. if there is no existing album in the tag, I would like it to look up by %artist%. I thought it had to do with the Amazon.com.src file. I changed the [SearchBy] line to [SearchBy]=%artist% %album%, but that didn't work. Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 10:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/search-amazon-by-artist/8807/2 "2009-08-19T10:06:47Z")

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Make sure that you open the right folder, it is usually **not** C:\Program Files\Mp3tag...  
but this:  
[/t/2748/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/2748/1)

And if you want this to be permanent rename the src file because if you install Mp3tag the existing src file is overwritten.

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**Author:** ![rtgjeg](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f19dbf/32.png) [@rtgjeg](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rtgjeg)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 10:31am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/search-amazon-by-artist/8807/3 "2009-08-19T10:31:59Z")

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That was the problem. Thanks for helping me fix it.

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/search-amazon-by-artist/8807/4 "2026-02-09T12:21:43Z")

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