I'm trying to search my music collection for certain data such as when the music was released, eg 1967, some of my files have this data contained within their "filename" tag, some don't, I would like to search for this and have mp3tag list them, so that I can transfer that to their actual "Year" tag…

Use a filter. You see the filter area when you press F3. The easiest would be to enter nothing but 1967 but probably you want to see all the files where the YEAR is missing and the _FILENAME has a 4-digit-number. So I suggest: %year% MISSING AND %_filename% MATCHES \d\d\d\d You find more abo…

Thank you for your ever so swift reply, I didn't expect an answer quite so quickly. OK, one of you solutions worked amazingly, the other didn't produce any results at all. Your suggestion of simply entering 1967, worked exactly as I had wanted, and as I have the "year" column displayed, It shows m…

You did not answer whether you use this on a Mac ... (I suspect something like that from your ID). Perhaps the next will work better: %year% MISSING AND %_filename% HAS 19

Sorry I missed that part of your answer. No, Im not a MAC user, I hate everything Apple, I'm a Windows User, thru and thru, my ID come thru years of experience of avoiding netbots and netspiders and spam emails, as they don't seem to like it when you mix your ID/Emails in this way I'll give that l…

OK, copied and pasted you last filter, that didnt work either

OK. Could it be that the year cannot be found in the filename but in the folder? Then it would be %year% MISSING AND %_path% MATCHES \d\d\d\d

Your initial SIMPLE solution has worked just fine for my needs, I'm a simple kida guy with simple needs, just trying to sort a massive music collection into some sort of semblance of order and to appease my mild OCD where my music is concerned. It's been a labour of love for the past few years and …

They say....... "Sometimes the simple solutions are the best" and that seems to have been true in this case

couldn't you show me a screendump of a file and its name and path which has no year and the missing data somewhere in path? (I tried my filter and it works as intended ...)

First of all, I have to thank you for your help and assistance Second, I did say I was not a programmer, so whilst I have a slight idea of what a screen dump is, I have no idea where to start and how to produce one, but I would if I could. If only to help you to help me a little better. Thirdly, …

Trying to perform a search of my files for a specific word/sequence

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ohrenkino February 20, 2022, 10:51am 12

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