# Find files with different 'genre' tag inside the same folder
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-files-with-different-genre-tag-inside-the-same-folder/10407
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 8, 2010, 10:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-files-with-different-genre-tag-inside-the-same-folder/10407 "2010-05-08T10:30:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@dikiz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dikiz)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2010, 10:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-files-with-different-genre-tag-inside-the-same-folder/10407/1 "2010-05-08T10:30:27Z")
I use quite a lot the 'genre' tag on my mp3 device and I hate it when I tagged differently releases of the same artist. Ex:
"music\artists\artistA\release1" \> release1 is tagged _Folk_
"music\artists\artistA\release2" \> release2 is tagged _Indie Rock_
Any idea to find all the artists (parent folder 'artistA') with different 'genre' tag inside?
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### Author:  [@stanman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/stanman)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-files-with-different-genre-tag-inside-the-same-folder/10407/2 "2010-05-08T17:24:30Z")
Load the whole music\artists\artistA folder (or maybe even music\artists) into Mp3tag.
First sort by Genre, then Artist. Have the Artist and Genre columns next to each other and you should be able to scroll down through it, look at all the tracks for one Artist and see if the Genre changes.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-files-with-different-genre-tag-inside-the-same-folder/10407/3 "2010-05-08T18:52:31Z")
> [@dikiz](#):
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> ... and I hate it when I tagged differently releases .....
btw: what a poor artist that serves only one genre.
On the more serious side:
It is not possible to compare any two tracks with MP3tag.
So there is no indicator that any named field, when compared, has different entries. I would appreciate such a function to find duplicates (so to say the other way round). But is not possible.
You have to find which entries you want and then e.g. build a filter that shows all those not matching your criteria
e.g.: %artist% IS artistA AND %genre% NOT IS Folk.
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### Author:  [@dikiz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dikiz)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2010, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-files-with-different-genre-tag-inside-the-same-folder/10407/4 "2010-05-13T21:58:04Z")
Hello, I've actually found a solution with MediaMonkey.
Thanks to this [script](http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14734), the "Person with... Multiple Genres" function will do exactly what I was looking for. Test pic:
🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-files-with-different-genre-tag-inside-the-same-folder/10407/5 "2026-02-09T12:22:22Z")