# Track date from title and artist
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-date-from-title-and-artist/53102
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [May 5, 2021, 11:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-date-from-title-and-artist/53102 "2021-05-05T11:57:00Z")
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### Author:  [@apl4](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/apl4)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2021, 11:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-date-from-title-and-artist/53102/1 "2021-05-05T11:57:00Z")
I have made a collection of 70's singles. It comprises 1 album, 115 discs and 2286 tracks. I am trying to populate the "Year" tag of all of the mp3's automatically. This is obviously not a known album, and the album artists are various.
Does anyone know how I could search and populate the "Year" tag from the "Artist" and "Title" tags?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2021, 12:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-date-from-title-and-artist/53102/2 "2021-05-05T12:03:39Z")
See e.g. this thread:
> [@Bulk Update Year Field with Discog/Other Sites](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-update-year-field-with-discog-other-sites/15366):
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> Hi! I have finally decided to tackle the retagging of a fairly large library and have chosen Mp3Tag for the task (for fairly obvious reasons, I think laughing ) I have made good progress and am nearing the end of my task here, but something has just struck me - Many of my YEAR field do not represent the original release date, which is of course now what I would like to set the field as. Apologies if my previous searching did not find a relevant topic, but is it possible to have a script cra…
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### Author:  [@apl4](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/apl4)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2021, 12:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-date-from-title-and-artist/53102/3 "2021-05-05T12:05:25Z")
Thanks. I'll check it out