# Singles Not Albums
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/singles-not-albums/71279
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 15, 2026, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/singles-not-albums/71279 "2026-05-15T13:58:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@musicfoodie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/musicfoodie)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2026, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/singles-not-albums/71279/1 "2026-05-15T13:58:25Z")
I have a few thousand mp3's that I ripped from my CD collection over the years.
The files are named as Artist - Title
The tags for Artist, Title and Artwork are populated as I filled these in as I ripped them which worked fine for my needs.
Now though I've started using KODI for media at home and would like to populate the Genre and Year fields.
I've looked on Discogs at a few tracks and find that some have multiple genres which I'm fine with.
Also I'm happy with the year being the release year of the album that the track appears on.
What I don't want though is the album field populating so that I end up with hundred of maybe single track albums.
Can this be done?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2026, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/singles-not-albums/71279/2 "2026-05-15T18:19:51Z")
In the web source script you can unselect the field for ALBUM and save only the other fields.
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### Author:  [@musicfoodie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/musicfoodie)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2026, 5:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/singles-not-albums/71279/3 "2026-05-16T05:53:20Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> web source script
Sorry I'm being dim here, where is that?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2026, 5:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/singles-not-albums/71279/4 "2026-05-16T05:57:01Z")
> [@musicfoodie](#):
>
> Discogs
is a web source script.
In the dialogue to assign the found data to files, there is a checkbox for each field with which you can set whether you want to set that data.
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### Author:  [@musicfoodie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/musicfoodie)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2026, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/singles-not-albums/71279/5 "2026-05-16T14:20:35Z")
These are my actions:
Highlight a file that needs Genre and Year populating
Select Discogs from the Tag Sources Menu
I get a requestor: **Search By** : Album
I Click Next and get a list of 100 results, none of which are the from the artist of the mp3 I originally selected
I click next and get a window titled: Adjust tag information with some details but to an unrelated artist / title
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2026, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/singles-not-albums/71279/6 "2026-05-16T14:25:58Z")
See the documentation how tag sources work:
> **[Importing Tags from Online Tag Sources – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/tag-sources/import/)**
>
> Documentation on how to import tags and cover art from online Tag Sources. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
AFAIK there are also ways to search discogs by title year and discogs id.
Use the source that suits your needs best.
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### Author:  [@musicfoodie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/musicfoodie)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2026, 4:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/singles-not-albums/71279/7 "2026-05-19T04:52:42Z")
I'm finally getting somewhere, I've gone through quite a few files but there are some niggles.
Is there any way to filter the search results to remove anything except the UK?
Can I limit the results to just Master Releases?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2026, 5:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/singles-not-albums/71279/8 "2026-05-19T05:20:30Z")
> [@musicfoodie](#):
>
> Can I limit the results to just Master Releases?
See this thread about master releases:
> [@Tag Sources from Discogs Release ID (Master Release)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-sources-from-discogs-release-id-master-release/44830):
>
> Hi. My name is Kurt and I live in Denmark. I'm all new to MP3TAG (and tagging at all) and to this forum, so please bear with me. I'm trying to get tags from Discogs via release ID - if I use the master release id [m48753] I get an error 404 - if I use one of the other 190 (eg. [r712084]) release id it works ok. Is it not possible to use the master release id? TIA Kurt
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### Author:  [@yorickausyps](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/yorickausyps)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2026, 8:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/singles-not-albums/71279/9 "2026-05-19T08:38:35Z")
If you are searching for artist + title, you will frequently end up with more than 100 matches for popular songs. In this situation you may want to refine the search and supply more search criteria, but the standard discogs searches only support two search parameters.
For this use case you can construct your own custom search script for example to search for **artist + title + country + mediatype** by using the export script provided in [Export configuration to build Discogs Custom Search Commands](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/export-configuration-to-build-discogs-custom-search-commands/70404).
For example searching for
_Bee Gees - New York Mining Disaster 1941_
has more than 100 matches, whereas a search for
_Bee Gees - New York Mining Disaster 1941 - UK - single_
with the above suggested custom search produces only 6 matches.
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### Author:  [@musicfoodie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/musicfoodie)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2026, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/singles-not-albums/71279/10 "2026-05-19T15:15:41Z")
Thank you, this is exactly what I originally wanted.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2026, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/singles-not-albums/71279/11 "2026-05-26T15:16:33Z")
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