# Second instance or alternative

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/second-instance-or-alternative/16706
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [March 17, 2015, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/second-instance-or-alternative/16706 "2015-03-17T19:16:49Z")
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### Author: ![Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/zerow/32/11379_2.png) [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2015, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/second-instance-or-alternative/16706/1 "2015-03-17T19:16:49Z")

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Hello

I have this problem, that I will simplify and describe in points:

1] Some of the old songs have LYRICIST tag with names written down in them

2] I want to add new songs

3] I do not remember what old song have a lyricist

4] I do not remember if a new song is some other version of an old song or a completely new song

5] So: I have to check every single new song [new added file] and compare it with already existing old songs [files]

So you can see that if I could open a second instance of Mp3tag, I could just switch between windows [one with old files and a second one with the new files]. It would be still a drag but a much less of a drag than my current one

Alternatively: if I could highlight [with lets say bright green] a set of files with a given characteristic [for example a creation date from today or by a name of a new album], then I could load the old and the new songs [all of my files] and just simply scroll throughout the whole list and see which files [the new ones] should be dealt with [if they lay next to a old not highlighted file bearing the same or similar name]. It would be still a manual job with a possibility of making errors [skipping], but it would be much more efficient and safer that my current possibilities

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