# Batch update "Genre" field only
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-update-genre-field-only/47929
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 20, 2020, 10:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-update-genre-field-only/47929 "2020-02-20T10:39:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@rusandvi](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rusandvi)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2020, 10:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-update-genre-field-only/47929/1 "2020-02-20T10:39:41Z")
I have a quite big mp3 collection now, but in the beginning, it was very small, and I was foolish enough to set the genre field to "Other" for all tracks. Artist, Album, Year, Title and Track fields is perfectly set, but "Genre" is set to "Other" for all tracks. Of course, I can update manually album by album, but I hope it’s possible to do this an easier way.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2020, 10:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-update-genre-field-only/47929/2 "2020-02-20T10:52:12Z")
Here is a thread about a similar question about the field YEAR:
> [@How to feed automatically ONLY the year field from tag sources (freed, discos...)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-feed-automatically-only-the-year-field-from-tag-sources-freed-discos/46093):
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> Hello, on my mp3 database, the field year is not always correct. How can I do to fill it in automatically from the tag sources freed, discogs... today it is filling all the fields...and I dont know how to select a specific field. thanks a lot tracta
which links to
> [@Bulk Update Year Field with Discog/Other Sites](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-update-year-field-with-discog-other-sites/15366):
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> Hi! I have finally decided to tackle the retagging of a fairly large library and have chosen Mp3Tag for the task (for fairly obvious reasons, I think laughing ) I have made good progress and am nearing the end of my task here, but something has just struck me - Many of my YEAR field do not represent the original release date, which is of course now what I would like to set the field as. Apologies if my previous searching did not find a relevant topic, but is it possible to have a script cra…
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-update-genre-field-only/47929/3 "2026-02-09T12:28:27Z")