# Converting APE to ID3?

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converting-ape-to-id3/4808>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [May 1, 2007, 10:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converting-ape-to-id3/4808 "2007-05-01T10:35:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ciolouse](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@Ciolouse](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ciolouse)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 10:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converting-ape-to-id3/4808/1 "2007-05-01T10:35:45Z")

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Hello all,

Thanks a lot for this really good software !!!!

But can anyone tell me how to convert tag APE to ID3 ?

Thanks !

![:music:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/2ba05d1ade5eb0d15fc173be6f717dbe63890a70.gif ":music:")

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**Author:** ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converting-ape-to-id3/4808/2 "2007-05-04T19:29:34Z")

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Enable reading of APEv2 and writing of ID3v2 at Options \> Tags \> Mpeg and reload the directory. After pressing the save button ![:mt_save:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/9a524114a0a7cfb94ed95e08e42778afb83a895f.png ":mt\_save:") the APEv2 tags will be copied to the ID3v2 tags.

Cheers,  
Florian

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**Author:** ![Ciolouse](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@Ciolouse](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ciolouse)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 9:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converting-ape-to-id3/4808/3 "2007-05-07T09:41:53Z")

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Thanks a lot Florian,

But in fact I mean how to delete APE tag in a music file, to have only ID3 tag on it.

Thanks 😃

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**Author:** ![Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sebastian_mares/32/9285_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 12:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converting-ape-to-id3/4808/4 "2007-05-07T12:36:19Z")

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Select APE for removal in the options and then press the ![:mt_delete:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/f8cb09f7d5897904a6009038a284a45dd782a67f.png ":mt\_delete:") button.

[https://docs.mp3tag.de/menus/file](https://docs.mp3tag.de/menus/file)

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**Author:** ![Ciolouse](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@Ciolouse](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ciolouse)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converting-ape-to-id3/4808/5 "2007-05-13T20:14:17Z")

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Thanks a lot ![:w00t:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/cb01eca72fe9339ff6f3ec9f1e3c5fe002be0f0a.gif ":w00t:")

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**Author:** ![apehater](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@apehater](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/apehater)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converting-ape-to-id3/4808/6 "2014-06-05T19:42:55Z")

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This didn't work for me.

I've a music file with ID3v1 and APE tags, with different fields which don't overlap. The APE tags have the infamous gain-tags and the ID3v1 has the artist/title/track/album tags.

I can't merge those together to ID3v2, only separate.

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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:** [June 6, 2014, 5:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converting-ape-to-id3/4808/7 "2014-06-06T05:39:34Z")

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If you have such inconsistent files you may have to try ... either to export the data to save it and you enable only one version of tags at a time ... or perform a sequential read of a low priority tag (start with V1) and save of the data as the highest priority tag (APE).  
You have to juggle a little with the settings in File\>Options\>Mpeg.

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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:** [August 9, 2021, 9:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/converting-ape-to-id3/4808/8 "2021-08-09T09:06:07Z")

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