# add 1 more GENRE tag?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-1-more-genre-tag/13537
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 11, 2012, 6:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-1-more-genre-tag/13537 "2012-06-11T06:00:53Z")
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### Author: ![psme](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@psme](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/psme)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2012, 6:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-1-more-genre-tag/13537/1 "2012-06-11T06:00:53Z")

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Hi,

First of all, thanks for the great program!!! 🙂

I have a media size library around 1500 albums, ~15000 songs. All the songs are tagged. Many songs have multiple GENRE tags.

For example, a english pop album I will use 2 genres  
Western  
Pop

Now, I want to add more GENRE tags to some albums. Such as for a album already tagged as:  
Japanese  
Jazz

I want to add a third GENRE so the album has 3 GENRE tags:  
Japanese  
Jazz  
Christmas

I did some research and tried some "Action" but couldn't get the result.

My need is to simply add an extra GENRE tag to a list of songs/albums.

I tried "Action -\> Replace", but that seems not support wildcard or I simply don't knwo how to do it!

Tried "Action -\> Replace with regular expression". I figured `^(.+)$` will match the whole existing GENRE string, then replace with `$1\\extragenre` But this operation will add extragenre to all existing GENRE tags, meaning on a existing GENRE tag `Japanese\\Jazz`, it will become `Japanese\\Christmas\\Jazz\\Christmas`.

Tried "Action -\> Format value", and format the GENRE tag to `%GENRE%\\extragenre`. But the result is the opposite of the above method. This "Format value" will destroy existing multiple GENRE tags, and only take the first GENRE tag and add the extra GENRE. Meaning a existing Genre tag `Japanese\\Jazz` will become `Japanese\\Christmas`, instead of `Japanese\\Jazz\\Christmas`!!!

So, any simple way to add an extra GENRE tag on top of an existing multiple GENRE tags?

Thanks in advance!

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