# Copy individual fields adds field on paste instead of replacing
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-individual-fields-adds-field-on-paste-instead-of-replacing/43740
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 1, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-individual-fields-adds-field-on-paste-instead-of-replacing/43740 "2018-12-01T17:55:59Z")
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-individual-fields-adds-field-on-paste-instead-of-replacing/43740/1 "2018-12-01T17:55:59Z")
As I read it here [Mp3tag v2.91 released](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-v2-91-released/43723) there was this new feature
And so I installed the new version and when straight to it. And there is a bug apparently:
**The field is copied - but instead of replacing the existing one, another is created with the same name**
I tried different fields, both legit and made up by me. I tried coping between two MP3 files and tried combination like e.g. FLAC \> WV, TTA \> MP3. The result was always the same: a creation of a doppelganger. And what is more, I can multiple that field to infinite numbers / versions, so that for example I can have two GENRE fields with `Rock` and 10 GENRE fields with `Pop` and 1 with `Hip-Hop`, all within one and the same file
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2018, 7:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-individual-fields-adds-field-on-paste-instead-of-replacing/43740/2 "2018-12-02T07:36:05Z")
Confirmed.
I think it is a bug.
But I like this behaviour as an alternate option if you intentionally want to create multiple tag-fields or just to be sure to not overwrite things by accident. To delete the unwanted content later is easy.
My suggestion therefore: A 4th selection beside Cut, Copy, Paste: "Replace".
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2018, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-individual-fields-adds-field-on-paste-instead-of-replacing/43740/3 "2018-12-02T15:43:53Z")
> [@poster](#):
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> [...]
> I think it is a bug.
> But I like this behaviour as an alternate option
> [...]
> My suggestion therefore: A 4th selection beside Cut, Copy, Paste: "Replace".
It could / should be a choice in Settings: if CTRL + V is to add another field of the same name or to replace [overwrite] it; with the default set [IMHO] to overwrite
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2018, 4:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-individual-fields-adds-field-on-paste-instead-of-replacing/43740/4 "2018-12-02T16:16:26Z")
> [@Zerow](#):
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> It could / should be a choice in Settings: if CTRL + V is to add another field of the same name or to replace [overwrite] it; with the default set [IMHO] to overwrite
I don't think so.
Hidden in settings it would be much too laborious to use these 2 options.
Before I change the settings in Mp3Tag in order to create a multi-tag-field this way I would edit the tags manually.
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2018, 5:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-individual-fields-adds-field-on-paste-instead-of-replacing/43740/5 "2018-12-02T17:24:27Z")
You have a point [poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster), as I think I understand how you understood me
But what I really had in my was this: [assuming this bug will be left as an option] I would like to be able to turn then that option off- so that in my Mp3tag I would not have at all an additional `Replace` entry in that small menu that now consists of `Cut`, `Copy` and `Paste`. Or to make it informative, rather have the `Replace` not removed completely but have it greyed out [so that looking at that menu I would remember that this was my choice and there is a place somewhere in Settings where I can turn than back on]
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2018, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-individual-fields-adds-field-on-paste-instead-of-replacing/43740/6 "2018-12-07T14:40:53Z")
I've moved this to #support as it's intended behavior. As a workaround for now, just remove any field you don't want to have duplicated.
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### Author:  [@xRussianBeautyx](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/xRussianBeautyx)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2019, 6:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-individual-fields-adds-field-on-paste-instead-of-replacing/43740/7 "2019-01-07T18:13:57Z")
> [@poster](#):
>
> My suggestion therefore: A 4th selection beside Cut, Copy, Paste: "Replace".
I was about to suggest the same 👍
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2021, 10:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-individual-fields-adds-field-on-paste-instead-of-replacing/43740/8 "2021-01-07T10:51:12Z")
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