# Append tag to variety of existing tags/files?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/append-tag-to-variety-of-existing-tags-files/52406
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 17, 2021, 7:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/append-tag-to-variety-of-existing-tags-files/52406 "2021-03-17T07:41:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@charibancho](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/charibancho)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2021, 7:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/append-tag-to-variety-of-existing-tags-files/52406/1 "2021-03-17T07:41:55Z")
I'm hoping this will help me make some smart playlists...smarter.
Imagine I have 2 tracks tagged as A and B in their respective genre tags. I want to append X to both tags at the same time so I end up with AX and BX. Extending this idea to ~100s of tracks with a wide variety genre tags is what I want to do.
I'm still learning my way around mp3tag but haven't quite figured out how to do this yet.
Cheers
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2021, 7:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/append-tag-to-variety-of-existing-tags-files/52406/2 "2021-03-17T07:43:56Z")
Have a look at the [FAQs on how to append a string to an existing field](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-and-batch-operations/967/5)
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### Author:  [@charibancho](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/charibancho)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2021, 8:12am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/append-tag-to-variety-of-existing-tags-files/52406/3 "2021-03-17T08:12:04Z")
Thanks for the speedy reply ohrenkino, I got it to work...which is a start.
Instead of having to custom roll an action each time I guess what I was really hoping for was to be able to drop 10 files into the browser and there would be an "Append" header (?) in the genre tag field that I could just add necessary words to.
Also OT, but is there a way to search for words _only_ within ie genre tags?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2021, 8:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/append-tag-to-variety-of-existing-tags-files/52406/4 "2021-03-17T08:14:08Z")
Instead of an action you could also use Convert\>Tag-Tag.
> [@charibancho](#):
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> Also OT, but is there a way to search for words _only_ within ie genre tags?
See the [help on filters](https://docs.mp3tag.de/filter)
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### Author:  [@charibancho](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/charibancho)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2021, 8:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/append-tag-to-variety-of-existing-tags-files/52406/5 "2021-03-17T08:18:36Z")
Thanks, I'll do some more study/research 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2023, 5:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/append-tag-to-variety-of-existing-tags-files/52406/6 "2023-07-04T05:41:34Z")
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