# Change backslash to forward slash in Genre field

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-backslash-to-forward-slash-in-genre-field/50247
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 20, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-backslash-to-forward-slash-in-genre-field/50247 "2020-09-20T15:06:20Z")
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### Author: ![DooDafiit](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@DooDafiit](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DooDafiit)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-backslash-to-forward-slash-in-genre-field/50247/1 "2020-09-20T15:06:20Z")

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Could You help me to find the right regular expression?  
My genres are like "Folk \Blues \Rock" and I want to convert it to "Folk / Blues / Rock".

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### 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: [September 20, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-backslash-to-forward-slash-in-genre-field/50247/2 "2020-09-20T16:07:45Z")

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> [@DooDafiit](#):
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> right regular expression

I do not think that you need a regular expression as it looks like you want to replace one text constant with another and no pattern.  
Create an action of the type "Replace" for GENRE  
Search string: `\`  
Replace string: `/`  
(please add the required trailing space character for the replace string - it does not show in the post)

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### Author: ![DooDafiit](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@DooDafiit](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DooDafiit)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-backslash-to-forward-slash-in-genre-field/50247/3 "2020-09-20T16:28:34Z")

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Thanks for Your help but it didn't work.  
 ![03](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/9/976e8a2fab8a39247b715e55695e8e3396d5abd5.jpeg) ![02](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5b778c34a9531cce976a57a5b0369e987eba9f76.jpeg) ![01](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/1/1245b80c0e61509a99c2690c7999e48e44055f68.jpeg)

The configuration as you can see in screenshot 1 worked bizarrely.

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### 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: [September 20, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-backslash-to-forward-slash-in-genre-field/50247/4 "2020-09-20T17:03:00Z")

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I then suspect that you have a "multi-value" field.  
You can check that like follows:  
Select a file that has the backslashes in GENRE  
Press Alt-T to open the dialogue "Extended tags".  
Check how many fields with the name GENRE you have. E.g. from the screendump: one with "Pop" and one with "Christian".

Use an action of the Type "Merge duplicate fields" for GENRE and enter as separator `/`.  
Like that you should get just one field of the type GENRE and the values separated with the slash.

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### Author: ![DooDafiit](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@DooDafiit](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DooDafiit)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-backslash-to-forward-slash-in-genre-field/50247/5 "2020-09-20T17:13:09Z")

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That was the solution 🙂 Tank You very much!

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/change-backslash-to-forward-slash-in-genre-field/50247/6 "2026-02-09T12:28:50Z")

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