# Strange result after using the filter
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-result-after-using-the-filter/69410
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 13, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-result-after-using-the-filter/69410 "2025-08-13T18:03:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@tornrock](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tornrock)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-result-after-using-the-filter/69410/1 "2025-08-13T18:03:35Z")
Hi everybody
I’m new with mp3tag, so I need help for a little problem.
I used the Filter function to display informations about a precise singer. This musician has two mp3 files on Windows explorer, each of them on two separate directories, with one named from the complete name of the singer. But the name of this musician also appears in the comment section of another mp3 file, which is a song from another singer. The problem is that when I type the name of the artist (the first cited), mp3tag shows me only the file in which the artist is only mentioned in the comment section, but not the two mp3 files of the artist (which are both in directories with the artist's name). Plus, mp3tag tells me that the fields Interpreter and Title are empty, when VLC shows that they are not (except for one of the two files).
Can somebody help me solve this, please? And how to tell mp3tag to also take in account names of directories in the Filter function?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 6:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-result-after-using-the-filter/69410/2 "2025-08-13T18:09:09Z")
> [@tornrock](#):
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> Plus, mp3tag tells me that the fields Interpreter and Title are empty, when VLC shows that they are not (except for one of the two files).
AFAIK VLC has a cache ...
Still, could you show us a screenshot of the extended tags dialogue Alt-T of ONE of the files that has no data but should?
Also, a screenshot of the OptionsCtrl-O \> Tags\>Mpeg would help.
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### Author:  [@tornrock](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tornrock)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-result-after-using-the-filter/69410/3 "2025-08-13T18:33:01Z")
Thank you for this amazing reactivity!
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-result-after-using-the-filter/69410/4 "2025-08-13T18:36:12Z")
See this thread about the use of MP3Gain and the impact it has on your audio file tag info. There are other threads describing similar results.
> [@Running Mp3Gain album analysis makes mp3 tags disappear in Mp3tag only](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/running-mp3gain-album-analysis-makes-mp3-tags-disappear-in-mp3tag-only/69163):
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> I have no idea what happened here. I have been running Mp3Gain on all my mp3s for over 20 years and I have never had a problem. I just generated these mp3s so they are brand new files made this afternoon from FLAC files using CueTools. The tags are perfect using Tag&Rename and Foobar2000 but all of a sudden the tags just don't show in Mp3Tag. If I right click on a file and show the extended tags this is all I get: I remade a directory of mp3s and did not run Mp3Gain on them and th…
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-result-after-using-the-filter/69410/5 "2025-08-13T18:45:39Z")
It shows that you have APE tags in the files - please set the options so that you do not read APE tags.
Reload the files and see whether you get better results.
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### Author:  [@tornrock](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tornrock)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-result-after-using-the-filter/69410/6 "2025-08-13T19:13:36Z")
Thank you, ohrenkino! After unchecking the 3 APE boxes, Interpreter and Title field of one of the two files are full. But my problem with the Filter is still there.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-result-after-using-the-filter/69410/7 "2025-08-13T19:16:35Z")
Could you please show us the filter expression?
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### Author:  [@tornrock](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tornrock)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 7:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-result-after-using-the-filter/69410/8 "2025-08-13T19:36:04Z")
Ok! This is it! As you will see, only one of the two files appears.
And when I type the full name of the artist, only the file in which he’s present only in the comment appears. Even the prevous file disappeared, while its parent directory contains the full name:
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-result-after-using-the-filter/69410/9 "2025-08-13T19:50:06Z")
If you look at the [documenation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/filter/):
> To filter the File List simply start typing in the filter field. As a result, all files that contain the specified filter string in their tag or file name are listed in the File List.
Then you see that the \_PATH is not part of the default filter.
If you add further words, then all these words have to be part of the tag data and/or filename.
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### Author:  [@tornrock](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tornrock)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2025, 7:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-result-after-using-the-filter/69410/10 "2025-08-14T07:39:00Z")
I see! But is there a way to add \_PATH in the Filter function? This possibility would completely solve this type of problem (it seems to me).
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2025, 7:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-result-after-using-the-filter/69410/11 "2025-08-14T07:45:45Z")
Apparently, you cannot mix both: the general filter that looks for a string anywhere in the tag data and the filename (but not the path) or you specify where to look, e.g.
`%artist% HAS Junior OR %_path% HAS Junior`
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### Author:  [@tornrock](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tornrock)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2025, 8:03am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-result-after-using-the-filter/69410/12 "2025-08-14T08:03:49Z")
O Lord! Thank you ohrenkino! Thanks a lot! At least I have now a solution to this haunting problem, without forgetting the most important: a better understanding of mp3tag, a software I really need.
Thank you men, for your time and help.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2025, 9:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-result-after-using-the-filter/69410/13 "2025-08-14T09:49:15Z")
I just tested a little more - try:
`* HAS Junior OR %_path% HAS Junior`
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### Author:  [@tornrock](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tornrock)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-result-after-using-the-filter/69410/14 "2025-08-14T17:50:09Z")
This, also worked! It’s very nice! Thank you!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strange-result-after-using-the-filter/69410/15 "2025-09-13T17:50:28Z")
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