# Auto-deletion of certain fields?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-deletion-of-certain-fields/10269
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 8, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-deletion-of-certain-fields/10269 "2010-04-08T22:09:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Thorpe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Thorpe)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-deletion-of-certain-fields/10269/1 "2010-04-08T22:09:41Z")
I would like Mp3tag to auto-delete any non-standard fields (ones that media players don't often recognise). Is there a way to do this so only track, artist, band, title etc only get kept in the tags? Maybe there's a filter I can apply to auto-delete a certain field when saving tags.
Please let me know if this is possible, since it will save me time (currently have to manually take them out in extended section).
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### Author:  [@JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JJ_Johnson)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-deletion-of-certain-fields/10269/2 "2010-04-09T00:25:35Z")
Create an Action Group with a single 'Remove fields except' action. Enter all of the fields that you want to keep, separated by semicolons.
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### Author:  [@Thorpe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Thorpe)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-deletion-of-certain-fields/10269/3 "2010-04-11T15:50:21Z")
Thanks. I have got it to work but I am unsure of what the field name is for the cover? I tried "cover" but it still removes it when I apply this action. Maybe it has a different name because you can get different types, such as front cover (the only one I want left).
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### Author:  [@JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JJ_Johnson)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2010, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-deletion-of-certain-fields/10269/4 "2010-04-11T15:57:05Z")
Try PICTURE.
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### Author:  [@Thorpe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Thorpe)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-deletion-of-certain-fields/10269/5 "2010-04-18T20:32:59Z")
It works! Many thanks. I take it if there was a back cover (or any other image), it would keep those also?
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-deletion-of-certain-fields/10269/6 "2026-02-09T12:22:18Z")