# Adding pre-defined values to drop-down lists **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-pre-defined-values-to-drop-down-lists/41021 **Category:** General Discussion **Created:** [March 10, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-pre-defined-values-to-drop-down-lists/41021 "2018-03-10T17:07:39Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### 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 10, 2018, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-pre-defined-values-to-drop-down-lists/41021/2 "2018-03-10T18:16:34Z")
> [@Tag Panel: horizontal layout improvements to tag fields](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-panel-horizontal-layout-improvements-to-tag-fields/40873/5): > > ability to add predefined values as you can do in the genre tag See this thread on a discussion why there are pre-defined values for genres but not for other fields: > [@Add missing ID3 styles (genres) types support](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-missing-id3-styles-genres-types-support/19389/4): > > What about a little research on your side? Anyway: the pre-defined (standard) options for GENRE are thre for the ID3V1 standard where each genre has a defined number from 1 to 256 - and only this one is stored in the tag. Any string that does not match the predefined list is mapped to "Other". In the ID3V2.3 standard you can input anything you like into the genre field which means that there is no standard anymore. So the only standard that is to be followed is that for V2.3 tags, a string ha… and here is a suggestion how to get pre-defined strings now already: > [@Defined values for 'Period' field](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/defined-values-for-period-field/40962/3): > > And those are the way to go But you can also combine both of them: just replace in that second one the PERIOD with GENRE so that you will put in the GENRE tag field your desired descriptions [which can be important later on, when you will be trying to see those descriptions in some player, that will be able to read the legit GENRE tag field but not some made up field like PERIOD] I personally have been using such combination [although with different descriptions] for something like 4 year… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-pre-defined-values-to-drop-down-lists/41021)._