# Tagging Year For Entire Folder
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-year-for-entire-folder/53482
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 9, 2021, 12:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-year-for-entire-folder/53482 "2021-06-09T00:06:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@TheBigBadgRIM](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TheBigBadgRIM)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2021, 12:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-year-for-entire-folder/53482/1 "2021-06-09T00:06:03Z")
Hello, I've been using Mp3Tag for a long time and love the simplicity of the product. However, between all the transferring, backing up, copying, and recreating of my hard drive data, I found my current music collection is missing most of the year and genre.
I'd prefer not to browse through Google, Discogs, and Wikipedia for every album's missing year and genre as I've got several thousand audio files. The screenshot shows all the other field data that is filled in. Is there a macro to tag search and auto-fill the years only? I'd rather go through the genres manually because things can get a little complicated, but the years added would be amazing.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2021, 4:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-year-for-entire-folder/53482/2 "2021-06-09T04:30:37Z")
Looks like this topic:
> [@Mass tagging of YEAR Tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mass-tagging-of-year-tag/17371):
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> Hello. My music database is missing the YEAR tags. I would like to ask if there any way for mass setting the YEAR Tag. It should grab the 1st matching result based on Artist and Title from discogs or similar? Can it be done using scripts in Mp3Tag? Thank you Br, KD
or perhaps this one helps:
> [@Have artist and title - need year](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/have-artist-and-title-need-year/11779):
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> Hi, I've been using mp3tag to manually edit my mp3s with great success. I have a few thousand songs (many actually), with correct artist and title tags only, but no year tag. Now I want to use "tag sources" to get only the year tag (ideally the fist year of release of any particular song), and possibly (but not necessarily) the genre tag. First I tried freedb, but for any given track, the results were always wrong, it never got the song right. So I then tried musicbrainz, which pops up a box "Se…
and see also this discussion:
> [@Release year of a song](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/release-year-of-a-song/41998/6):
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> I just found this thread, as I too am in search of a good online source for the original release year of many tracks I have from the 60s and 70s... I did try using VLOOKUP in Excel to get years into the list of files from a listing of about 2500 songs, and although it works, it was only 30% or so successful, because of any variation in title names ... I thought I had the solution, but I may be looking at manual entry, or maybe just call the collection "Groovy" and be done with it .. I have Whi…
And as I understand the mechanism of the web sources you have to do it album by album or title by title if there is no album.
(I wonder how backups remove year and genre data ...)
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2021, 1:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-year-for-entire-folder/53482/3 "2021-06-09T13:53:35Z")
Does the year and/or genre appear anywhere else, perhaps in your file names? If so that can be used as the source to populate the tags.
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-year-for-entire-folder/53482/4 "2021-06-09T19:12:34Z")
Sorry, I didn’t see the image earlier. These files don’t seem to have these tags in their titles. Maybe some other tracks in your library do to help start though?
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tagging-year-for-entire-folder/53482/5 "2026-02-09T12:29:16Z")