# Feature suggestion: Allow user to store singer names
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-suggestion-allow-user-to-store-singer-names/53522
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [June 15, 2021, 6:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-suggestion-allow-user-to-store-singer-names/53522 "2021-06-15T06:45:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Narayan](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Narayan)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2021, 6:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-suggestion-allow-user-to-store-singer-names/53522/1 "2021-06-15T06:45:04Z")
Hi
Mp3Tag allows us to define our own genres and remembers them. It also allows these definitions to be saved as configuration file.
This is useful in countries/cultures that have their own genres (e.g. ghazal).
This same concept can be extended to singers as well. By default, the singers are not saved like genres because there are too many singers, and it is not practical to save their names as a drop-down list.
However, in India, the market is not overcrowded with singers. Also, many popular singers enjoy a long career, and produce a large number of tracks. Therefore it is a good idea to let the users save the artists' names, and let these names be added to the **Artist** field.
To be precise, the suggested feature is as follows:
1. Allow the user to save an artist's name (provide a new "Artists" node in the **File \> Options** dialog)
2. Allow the user to add multiple artists' names in a comma-separated list
IMHO this same situation would be applicable in many countries. So this feature would be useful in multiple countries.
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### Author:  [@incifinci](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/incifinci)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2021, 9:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-suggestion-allow-user-to-store-singer-names/53522/2 "2021-06-15T09:43:30Z")
The drop down feature has been raised several times. Workaround: foobar2000 + TagBox plugin. Be careful with its limitations in ID3v2 tagging, as TagBox is no longer developing. There is no problem with FLAC; i did not try the rest.
Unfortunately, the search in TagBox works for initial letters only. For full text searching you must to use other options (foobar core search, Facets, and so on).
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2021, 10:10am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-suggestion-allow-user-to-store-singer-names/53522/3 "2021-06-15T10:10:56Z")
Or use already existing MP3tag functions.
See this and the linked threads:
> [@Artist, Composer and Year dropdown list](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/artist-composer-and-year-dropdown-list/19359):
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> The genre section allows to add custom genres. Manually added genre can be selected through a dropdown list. Can the same be achieved in case of artist, composer and year field?
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2021, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-suggestion-allow-user-to-store-singer-names/53522/4 "2021-08-12T14:57:20Z")
And another discussion about this:
> [@Add Name to Artist Dropdown list](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-name-to-artist-dropdown-list/44389):
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> Hi, I wanted to add an Artist name to the dropdown menu so I don't have to type it out every time. Can anyone tell me how to do this? Many thanks