# Tag panel for year field
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-for-year-field/65143
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 26, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-for-year-field/65143 "2024-06-26T19:19:43Z")
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### Author:  [@cmach1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cmach1)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-for-year-field/65143/1 "2024-06-26T19:19:43Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2024, 7:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-for-year-field/65143/2 "2024-06-26T19:25:15Z")
> [@cmach1](#):
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> so that the year (without parentheses) is automatically entered
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:
> **[Import Tags from File and Folder Names – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/converters/import-tags-from-filenames/)**
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> Documentation on Filename to Tag, a converter to import tags from file and folder names. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
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### Author:  [@cmach1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cmach1)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2024, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-for-year-field/65143/3 "2024-06-26T19:51:38Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-for-year-field/65143/4 "2024-06-26T19:54:28Z")
> [@cmach1](#):
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> KPM 1165 - A Jazz Inclination (1975)
To import the data for YEAR from the folder name try Convert\>Filename-Tag
Format string: `%dummy% (%year%)\%dummy%`
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### Author:  [@cmach1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cmach1)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2024, 8:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-for-year-field/65143/5 "2024-06-26T20:27:50Z")
It worked. Thank you.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2024, 8:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-for-year-field/65143/6 "2024-07-26T20:28:22Z")
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