# Substitute YEAR tag **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [March 28, 2020, 10:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/substitute-year-tag/48339 "2020-03-28T10:43:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Massimo\_Corso](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Massimo\_Corso](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Massimo_Corso)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 10:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/substitute-year-tag/48339/1 "2020-03-28T10:43:17Z")
Hi, I have all my music folders named as YEAR - Album Title like 2020 - Gigaton. But the YEAR tag of the file is like YY/MM/DD. I would like to substitute al YEAR tag with only the first 4 characters of the folder name. Can you explain me how? Thanks, Massimo ---
**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 11:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/substitute-year-tag/48339/2 "2020-03-28T11:15:18Z")
Use Convert\>Filename - Tag Format string: `%year% - %dummy%\%dummy%` ---
**Author:** ![Massimo\_Corso](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Massimo\_Corso](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Massimo_Corso)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 11:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/substitute-year-tag/48339/3 "2020-03-28T11:59:36Z")
Sorry but I can't understand how it can automatically know that I want only the first 4 characters of the folder name ---
**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/substitute-year-tag/48339/4 "2020-03-28T13:39:32Z")
> [@Massimo\_Corso](#): > > automatically know that I want only the first 4 characters of the folder name It doesn't. It takes a pattern: in > [@Massimo\_Corso](#): > > 2020 - Gigaton\filename you find this: everything up to "blank hyphen blank" put into YEAR then ignore the rest up to the slash and everything following the slash (in the filename). It is a pity that you did not simply try it. ---
**Author:** ![Massimo\_Corso](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Massimo\_Corso](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Massimo_Corso)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/substitute-year-tag/48339/5 "2020-03-28T14:06:26Z")
Thanks man...but it doesn't seems to work ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/1/1c0993a346308c47cefdc7ac6517c626bfef0d42.png) ---
**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/substitute-year-tag/48339/6 "2020-03-28T14:12:58Z")
The pattern has to match exactly the filename. It could be that the hypen is a special character. You could try to start in Convert\>Filename-Tag with a pattern like `%year%\%dummy%` To see the full foldername in YEAR. now edit it to `%year% %dummy%\%dummy%` and see if it helps. ---
**Author:** ![Massimo\_Corso](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Massimo\_Corso](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Massimo_Corso)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/substitute-year-tag/48339/7 "2020-03-28T14:16:43Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#): > > %year% %dummy%%dummy% Yessssssssssssss! It works! Thanks, thank you very much! ---
**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, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/substitute-year-tag/48339/8 "2026-02-09T12:28:29Z")