# 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: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@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")

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> [@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%]`

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