# Select all files with two tags which have matching contents.

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/select-all-files-with-two-tags-which-have-matching-contents/18658>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [February 1, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/select-all-files-with-two-tags-which-have-matching-contents/18658 "2017-02-01T17:04:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![TUNES](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/54ee81/32.png) [@TUNES](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TUNES)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/select-all-files-with-two-tags-which-have-matching-contents/18658/1 "2017-02-01T17:04:57Z")

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Hello,

Firstly, thank you for such a useful product and apologies if this has already been answered. I did search.

I have a whole bunch of files where the Publisher field data (the record label) is also in the Album Artist field.

How should I go about searching for and selecting only the files where the information in the Publisher field is identical to the information in another field such as, in this case, the Album Artist field?

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/select-all-files-with-two-tags-which-have-matching-contents/18658/2 "2017-02-01T17:52:02Z")

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Use the filter (F3) and filter with this string:

"$if($eql(%publisher%,%albumartist%),yes,no)" IS yes

You can find this and other examples in the Help.

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**Author:** ![TUNES](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/54ee81/32.png) [@TUNES](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TUNES)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 10:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/select-all-files-with-two-tags-which-have-matching-contents/18658/3 "2017-02-13T22:49:18Z")

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Sorry, I don't understand how to do that. Thanks anyway.

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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, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/select-all-files-with-two-tags-which-have-matching-contents/18658/4 "2026-02-09T12:26:38Z")

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