# Tags Being Changed
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-being-changed/64323
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 6, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-being-changed/64323 "2024-04-06T18:49:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@KennethDotsey](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/KennethDotsey)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-being-changed/64323/1 "2024-04-06T18:49:37Z")
All of a sudden when I retrieve album art my file names and tags are being changed Help?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2024, 7:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-being-changed/64323/3 "2024-04-06T19:34:23Z")
Can you double-check if you use one of the Tag Sources from the **Covert Art** submenu? Only those are album-art only.
The others are also importing titles and other metadata (that can be individually checked and unchecked for import).
Filenames are never changed when retrieving album art. If this is really happening, I'd need more information on the exact steps you're performing.
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### Author:  [@KennethDotsey](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/KennethDotsey)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2024, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-being-changed/64323/4 "2024-04-07T14:55:11Z")
Thank You for the quick response What I usually do is drag 20 songs into the program. I then right click and click on Discogs artist and album. If it finds the album I choose the cover art and it applies it nicely to the song file. I found music brainz will retrieve many albums that discogs might not find. After doing this I play the song and notice the song title has been changed so I retag the song, it's not horrible but it is concerning Very Truly Yours Kenneth Dotsey
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-being-changed/64323/5 "2024-04-07T15:21:57Z")
> [@KennethDotsey](#):
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> Discogs artist and album ... the song title has been changed
Web source scripts that search for more than just the cover art expect you to align the found titles in the left list with the files in the right list of the web sources results page.
If you want to keep all the data as it is and only modify the picture, use the script
> [@Florian](#):
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> from the **Covert Art** submenu
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2024, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-being-changed/64323/6 "2024-04-07T17:15:48Z")
Two pictures to show what @Florian and @ohrenkino are describing
[Source](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/when-i-use-discogs-scan-it-always-sets-the-file-as-the-track-1-of-the-album/59896/2)
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> [@KennethDotsey](#):
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> After doing this I play the song and notice the song title has been changed
If the choosen album from MusicBrainz or Discogs change your existing title, the album was not the exactly matching one. You need to choose exactly the one with the same number of tracks in the same order you have it locally. Or you need to modify/align the order of the tracks manually.
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### Author:  [@KennethDotsey](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/KennethDotsey)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2024, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-being-changed/64323/7 "2024-04-08T14:23:40Z")
I discovered that if you uncheck title when applying the cover art it leaves the tagging information alone
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2024, 2:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-being-changed/64323/8 "2024-04-08T14:44:39Z")
If you don't want to use the "Cover Art only" Websources, you can also untick all the metadata that you don't want to be applied to your tracks - not only the track TITLE:
[Source](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-musicbrainz-expanded/55909/15)
Otherwise it could be that your track number (TRACK) or year (and [many other informations](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-musicbrainz-expanded/55909#can-i-reduce-the-number-of-tagsbrhow-can-i-strip-the-tags-down-to-the-one-i-need-3)) will be changed too.
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### Author:  [@KennethDotsey](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/KennethDotsey)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-being-changed/64323/9 "2024-04-25T16:10:13Z")
how about using discogs can I configure discogs to stop changing my meta data
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### Author:  [@KennethDotsey](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/KennethDotsey)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2024, 4:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-being-changed/64323/10 "2024-04-25T16:11:55Z")
I don't know I am trying to figure out what advice you are giving me but failing
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### Author:  [@KennethDotsey](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/KennethDotsey)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-being-changed/64323/11 "2024-04-25T16:13:04Z")
Huh I am lost where do I find and adjust this setting
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-being-changed/64323/12 "2024-04-25T16:24:04Z")
> [@KennethDotsey](#):
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> how about using discogs can I configure discogs to stop changing my meta data
Sure. Exactly the same way as already written above.
If this does not work for you, please describe step by step what you do until your metadata get changed.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2024, 6:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-being-changed/64323/13 "2024-04-26T06:14:36Z")
> [@KennethDotsey](#):
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> adjust this setting
Every time that you use a web source script.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2024, 6:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tags-being-changed/64323/14 "2024-05-26T06:15:12Z")
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