# Custom Tag Drop Down Lists

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/custom-tag-drop-down-lists/7574
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 5, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/custom-tag-drop-down-lists/7574 "2008-12-05T21:48:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![fortissimo](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@fortissimo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fortissimo)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/custom-tag-drop-down-lists/7574/1 "2008-12-05T21:48:12Z")

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One of my custom tags is "subgenre" for my classical collection. I'd like to have things like "Piano - Solo" or "Concerto - Flute", but I don't want to have to memorize the exact formatting of every new subgenre I create. Is there any way to define preset values (that would appear as a drop-down list) for custom tag fields within MP3Tag? For example, the "Genre" tag has drop-down choices such as Punk or Ambient.

Thanks,  
Chad

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2008, 10:23am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/custom-tag-drop-down-lists/7574/2 "2008-12-06T10:23:00Z")

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That's not possible.  
But you can create a format value action for each subgenre that you use and quickly apply it from the down arrow besides the ![:mt_act:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/318aa654f7a0c7c178d869991f6e8680b214cfc0.png ":mt\_act:") button.

If you use a # sign in the action group names it will give you an extra sub menu:  
Tag Subgenre#Piano - Solo  
Tag Subgenre#Concerto - Flute

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### Author: ![fortissimo](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@fortissimo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fortissimo)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/custom-tag-drop-down-lists/7574/3 "2008-12-15T17:48:54Z")

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Thanks so much for both of those tips - extremely helpful!

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### Author: ![Moonbase](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/moonbase/32/207_2.png) [@Moonbase](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Moonbase)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2008, 10:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/custom-tag-drop-down-lists/7574/4 "2008-12-16T10:18:35Z")

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I agree—didn’t know about the »#« for submenus before. Great.

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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, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/custom-tag-drop-down-lists/7574/5 "2026-02-09T12:21:14Z")

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