The format I'm using for the folder names goes something like this:
KPM 1165 - A Jazz Inclination (1975)
So it's label name label # - album title (year)
I would like to create a tag panel for the year field, so that the year (without parentheses) is automatically entered when i load the album into the program for additional re-tagging. What should I put as the default value to make this happen?
MP3tag never adds data from anywhere "automatically" - you would have to use a suitable function to get the year from somewhere - and be it that you enter it manually - and then MP3tag will show you the tag data any time you load that file.
If you want to get data from the folder name see the documentation:
The thing is that I've already created custom tag panels for genre (Library Music) and album artist (Various Artists) and those fields are already filled in when I load an album into mp3tag. There must be a way to do this with the year field as well. The only issue is that the year is not always the same from album to album and the only place I can import the specific year information is from the folder name.
There is a "year" panel already there in tag panels to choose from, but I don't know what default value to enter to account for the changing year from album to album. I also have to contend with eliminating the parentheses that exist on either side of the year in the folder name, as I don't want to import them into the year field.
To import the data for YEAR from the folder name try Convert>Filename-Tag
Format string: %dummy% (%year%)\%dummy%
It worked. Thank you.