# Year Category Needs Correcting
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-category-needs-correcting/55891
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [January 14, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-category-needs-correcting/55891 "2022-01-14T16:45:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Smudger](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Smudger)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-category-needs-correcting/55891/1 "2022-01-14T16:45:16Z")
Hiya all
I have loads of files with the year field filled in like this
`2021\\2021`
Is there a way please to strip out everything from \ just to leave 2021
thanks in advance
Steve
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-category-needs-correcting/55891/2 "2022-01-14T16:46:52Z")
See this topic:
> [@Reformating YEAR field](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reformating-year-field/17926/2):
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> The \\ is MP3tag's representation of a multi-value field: you have at least 2 fields of the type YEAR in the files. There are action to either merge the fields to one field (use a different separator than \\) or to delete all duplicate fields. Or you have a look at the extended tags dialogue (Alt-T) and see the fields there and decide which field to delete.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2022, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-category-needs-correcting/55891/3 "2022-01-14T16:47:02Z")
Yes, try an action of the type "[Remove duplicate fields](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/remove-duplicate-fields)"
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### Author:  [@Smudger](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Smudger)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2022, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-category-needs-correcting/55891/4 "2022-01-14T17:16:57Z")
thanks for that but I don't understand what I have to do, could you explain please
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-category-needs-correcting/55891/5 "2022-01-14T18:01:01Z")
Load the files
Select the files.
[Create an action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-and-batch-operations/967/2) of the type "[Remove duplicate fields](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/remove-duplicate-fields)" and enter YEAR and field.
Then click ok to close all dialogues and execute the action.
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2022, 6:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-category-needs-correcting/55891/6 "2022-01-15T06:36:43Z")
> [@Smudger](#):
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> I have loads of files with the year field filled in like this
>
> `2021\\2021`
A possible reason why this happened maybe the use of Mediamonkey for tagging.
If you use Mediamonkey and want to use it also in the future: there is a setting in Mediamonkey that can avoid this.
Add this to the file mediamonkey.ini:
> [MP3Tagging]
> DisableFrames=TDRC;TDOR;
> EnableFrames=TYER;TDAT;TORY;
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### Author:  [@Smudger](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Smudger)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2022, 7:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-category-needs-correcting/55891/7 "2022-01-15T07:06:45Z")
thank you all so much working a treat now
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2022, 9:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/year-category-needs-correcting/55891/8 "2022-04-05T09:49:47Z")
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