# comparing id3v1 and id3v2 tags

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comparing-id3v1-and-id3v2-tags/10415
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 10, 2010, 4:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comparing-id3v1-and-id3v2-tags/10415 "2010-05-10T04:09:17Z")
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### Author: ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2010, 4:32am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comparing-id3v1-and-id3v2-tags/10415/2 "2010-05-10T04:32:33Z")

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> [@chrizoo](#):
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> ... I want to parse my whole music collection and get rid of all my id3v1 tags. However I don't want to discard them blindly, but compare them first with the v2 tags and only delete v1 tags that are indeed identical - in order not to lose any information (=delete all except inconsistent tags). I would then compare the remaining inconsistent (not identical) tags manually. ...

There is described how to pull field content from the ID3v1 tag into view of ID3v2 tag:  
[Feature Request: Delete (and copy between) certain types of tags (ID3v1, APE)](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/10131/7)

To do the comparisons the Mp3tag Filter can help.

DD.20100510.0832.CEST

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