# Generate Playlists By Genre (Having Multiple Values)
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/generate-playlists-by-genre-having-multiple-values/15564
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 6, 2014, 9:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/generate-playlists-by-genre-having-multiple-values/15564 "2014-03-06T21:56:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@xavier.beltran](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/xavier.beltran)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2014, 9:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/generate-playlists-by-genre-having-multiple-values/15564/1 "2014-03-06T21:56:17Z")
Hi,
I use AMG to tag my files and therefore Genre can have multiple values.
I use MP3Tag's \\ to separate the values and it works fine (I filter-checked it via "$meta")
I would like to simulate the following actions with a script/action/export, for instance:
- Filter: "$meta(GENRE,0)" IS "Folk" OR "$meta(GENRE,1)" IS "Folk" OR "$meta(GENRE,2)" IS "Folk" OR ...
- Menu-\>Playlist (all Files) with File Name: Folk.m3u
If I could iterate on all genres present in the File View (instead of specifying "Folk" or "Pop/Rock" etc.) that would even be better.
Any ideas?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2014, 2:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/generate-playlists-by-genre-having-multiple-values/15564/2 "2014-03-07T02:53:05Z")
> [@xavier](#):
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> ... - Filter: "$meta(GENRE,0)" IS "Folk" OR "$meta(GENRE,1)" IS "Folk" OR "$meta(GENRE,2)" IS "Folk" OR ...
Possibly there is a simplification for the filter string ...
GENRE HAS "Folk"
This will find also "Rockfolk" or "Folk Rock".
> [@xavier](#):
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> ... I would like to simulate the following actions with a script/action/export, ...for instance: ... - Menu-\>Playlist (all Files) with File Name: Folk.m3u ...
Hm, at first ... study how the Mp3tag export scripting language does work.
A simple m3u export script looks like this ...
**$filename('T:\TEST\PlayList.m3u.txt',ANSI)'#EXTM3U' $loop(%\_path%)'#EXTINF:'%\_length\_seconds%','%ARTIST%' - '%TITLE% %\_path% $loopend()**
... somewhat extended m3u8 ...
**1: $filename($getEnv('USERPROFILE')'\Desktop\Playlist.Genre.Artist.Title.m3u8.txt',UTF-8)$loop(%GENRE%)'#EXTM3U'**
**2: '###GENRE='$if2(%GENRE%,'undefined')
3: '###PLAYLIST=Playlist.Genre.'$if2(%GENRE%,'undefined')'.txt'
4: $loop(%ARTIST%)$loop(%TITLE%)'#EXTINF:'%\_length\_seconds%','%ARTIST%' - '%TITLE%
5: %\_path%
6: $loopend()$loopend()
7: '###'$repeat('-',20)' use text editor to split here '$repeat('-',20)
8: $loopend()**
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### Author:  [@xavier.beltran](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/xavier.beltran)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/generate-playlists-by-genre-having-multiple-values/15564/3 "2014-03-07T16:30:33Z")
DetlevD, many thanks for answering
(btw, I started using your Mp3tagExportSplitter mte & exe to start learning about the issues at hand)
Thanks for the filter simplification which works fine. Is there any way to filter with an action/script?
Tried your solution in the export file but it seems looping on %genre% does not loop on every instance of the genre multivalues and stops at the first (i.e. $meta("X",0))
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2014, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/generate-playlists-by-genre-having-multiple-values/15564/4 "2014-03-07T17:02:28Z")
> [@xavier](#):
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> ... Tried your solution in the export file but it seems looping on %genre% does not loop on every instance of the genre multivalues and stops at the first (i.e. $meta("X",0))
Read there ...
[/t/15566/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/15566/1)
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/generate-playlists-by-genre-having-multiple-values/15564/5 "2026-02-09T12:24:57Z")