# Absurdly simple question- delete tag and replace

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/absurdly-simple-question-delete-tag-and-replace/41194>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 24, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/absurdly-simple-question-delete-tag-and-replace/41194 "2018-03-24T18:49:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![kireta](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/kireta/32/5038_2.png) [@kireta](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kireta)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/absurdly-simple-question-delete-tag-and-replace/41194/1 "2018-03-24T18:49:56Z")

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Absurdly simple question, that I think can be answered in 30 seconds and has defeated me for 30 minutes.

How to replace a tag (which is populated by many different text values over many files) with another tag?

For example, a list of songs has "Rock", "Alternative Rock", "Pop" as GENRE tags.

Wish to have all those songs have "Rock" as the GENRE tag.

How to do so?

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2018, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/absurdly-simple-question-delete-tag-and-replace/41194/2 "2018-03-24T18:53:41Z")

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Select the files where you want to modify the genre.  
Enter the preferred text in the input box for genre in the tag panel on the left.  
Press Ctrl-S to save the changes.

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**Author:** ![kireta](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/kireta/32/5038_2.png) [@kireta](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kireta)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/absurdly-simple-question-delete-tag-and-replace/41194/3 "2018-03-24T19:43:30Z")

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Sigh....thank you. That was, as suspected, very easy...

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/absurdly-simple-question-delete-tag-and-replace/41194/4 "2026-02-09T12:27:19Z")

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