# Wanting to purchase mp3tag for macOS but I am having a few struggles
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wanting-to-purchase-mp3tag-for-macos-but-i-am-having-a-few-struggles/63800
**Category:** Mac
**Created:** [February 16, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wanting-to-purchase-mp3tag-for-macos-but-i-am-having-a-few-struggles/63800 "2024-02-16T17:03:28Z")
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### Author:  [@deadman36g](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/deadman36g)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wanting-to-purchase-mp3tag-for-macos-but-i-am-having-a-few-struggles/63800/1 "2024-02-16T17:03:28Z")
Hello,
I am a longtime YATE user on macOS which is great software, but back in my windows days I was a mp3tag user. I like mp3tag's ease of use,
Here are a few things I am looking to do but am having trouble with
1. I can not seem to retrieve original release dates from either discogs (preferred) or musicbrainz, this is of course useful for a remastered album for example that was released in say 2013 but the original release date (which is how I like to sort my albums) is 1988
2. Renaming files. I assume this is a simple fix but here is what I trying to get
music/Aerosmith/[1994] Get a Grip/
Also I would like my rename script to allow for extra discs if needed
1. Is there a way currently to use synched lyrics with FLAC files? I understand this may not be a limitation of mp3tag but FLAC files themselves.
That is it for the time being, thanks for any help, and thanks for this awesome software 🙂
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wanting-to-purchase-mp3tag-for-macos-but-i-am-having-a-few-struggles/63800/2 "2024-02-16T17:32:32Z")
> [@deadman36g](#):
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> retrieve original release dates from either discogs
If the data is not present on the result page in discogs or Musicbrainz, then it cannot be retrieved.
> [@deadman36g](#):
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> Renaming files. I assume this is a simple fix but here is what I trying to get
> music/Aerosmith/[1994] Get a Grip/
What have you tried so far?
Perhaps an additional look at the documentation helps:
> [@Rename Files and Import Tags from Files](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-files-and-import-tags-from-files/51720):
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> Mp3tag provides a variety of possibilities to get tag information from parts of the filename or to rename files based on the information stored in the tag of a file. The base concept behind all converters in Mp3tag is the format string, which describes a pattern or template of a filename. A format string consists of any characters and predefined placeholders or scripting functions. Every placeholder begins with the percent sign %, followed by a tag field name and ends with the percent sign. …
> [@deadman36g](#):
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> Is there a way currently to use synched lyrics with FLAC files?
As MP3tag only supports UNSYNCEDLYRICS you would have to resort to a different program to either look for this kind of data or to create it.
And then it is a feature of the player to properly display those lyrics.
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### Author:  [@deadman36g](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/deadman36g)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2024, 5:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wanting-to-purchase-mp3tag-for-macos-but-i-am-having-a-few-struggles/63800/3 "2024-02-16T17:41:06Z")
Thanks for your response,
regarding question 1, the data is not present within the Tag Sources window when feching in mp3tag, but using similar software that data fetched using both discogs and MusicBrainz. Is there a way to add that field to mp3tag results?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2024, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wanting-to-purchase-mp3tag-for-macos-but-i-am-having-a-few-struggles/63800/4 "2024-02-16T17:49:22Z")
See e.g. here:
> [@How do I get the original release date from Discogs or MusicBrainz?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-do-i-get-the-original-release-date-from-discogs-or-musicbrainz/58785):
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> I'm sure I'm being dumb but I can't see how to find the original release date when using Tag Sources\>Discogs. All that shows up are [these fields] [grafik] The field I want is Original Release Time, or %origyear% in Mp3tag. (I've already added a new %origyear% column to Mp3tag.) I'm fairly sure it's possible because this MediaMonkey script can apparently retrieve that field, as shown here: [image] Can you help me out please?
... but what do the web source scripts have to do with purchasing the Mac version?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2024, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wanting-to-purchase-mp3tag-for-macos-but-i-am-having-a-few-struggles/63800/5 "2024-02-17T12:28:28Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> ... but what do the web source scripts have to do with purchasing the Mac version?
Having everything working as expected/required is probably simply a precondition to a potential purchase — so nothing wrong with that.
> [@deadman36g](#):
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> I can not seem to retrieve original release dates from either discogs (preferred) or musicbrainz
Mp3tag's Tag Sources can only query what's retrieved with the API request to a particular release. The original release date on Discogs seems to be tied to the master release, which could — in theory — also be used to import the data (but is currently not, and would not include the data of the actual release then).
> [@deadman36g](#):
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> music/Aerosmith/[1994] Get a Grip/
The square brackets are [special characters](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/format-strings-and-available-placeholders/51688#characters-with-special-functionality-1) in Mp3tag's [format string language](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/format-strings-and-available-placeholders/51688), so you'd have to escape those as in
`music/%artist%/'['%year%']' %album%`
> [@deadman36g](#):
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> Also I would like my rename script to allow for extra discs if needed
Extra discs depend on how you store those in your tags, you could, e.g., use
`music/%artist%/'['%year%']' %album%[/%discnumber%]`