# duplicate tags
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-tags/1977
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 16, 2005, 11:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-tags/1977 "2005-05-16T11:06:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@scottallenburns](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/scottallenburns)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2005, 11:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-tags/1977/1 "2005-05-16T11:06:18Z")
Many (1500) of my mp3 were corrupted by a program that added duplicate artist, title, album, and genre tags that contain bad information. In the tag panel, they appear separated by backslashes (). When I view tags (alt-T), there are multiple instances of each. Is there some way to delete the first occurance of each of these duplicate tags?
---
### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2005, 11:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-tags/1977/2 "2005-05-16T11:25:38Z")
If you make a new action, you can set the action type to remove or merge duplicate fields.
---
### Author:  [@scottallenburns](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/scottallenburns)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-tags/1977/3 "2005-05-16T21:07:18Z")
Since the redundant fields contain bad information, I certainly don't want to merge them. And the tag contents are not duplicates--they just have the same tag type. When you say "remove duplicate fields", how do I specify which one of the two to remove?
---
### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2005, 6:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-tags/1977/4 "2005-05-17T06:48:39Z")
Apparently it will remove the first one. There's no option to assign the order I think.
If you want another order, you can merge first and then delete the redundant stuff.
---
### Author:  [@scottallenburns](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/scottallenburns)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2005, 4:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-tags/1977/5 "2005-05-17T16:00:14Z")
I've searched through all the help files and can't seem to figure out how to remove duplicate fields. Do I have to type some sort of action into the Convert-\>Actions dialog box?
---
### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-tags/1977/6 "2005-05-17T16:20:58Z")
It's an action type like Case conversion ...
It's not yet in the help file so i have added it here:
[Actions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/2)
---
### Author:  [@scottallenburns](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/scottallenburns)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2005, 7:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-tags/1977/7 "2005-05-17T19:54:31Z")
That worked! Thanks!
---
### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2021, 2:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-tags/1977/8 "2021-01-06T14:32:51Z")