# Genre Change action possible?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-change-action-possible/67601
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 20, 2025, 10:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-change-action-possible/67601 "2025-02-20T22:42:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@mbrazil05](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mbrazil05)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2025, 10:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-change-action-possible/67601/1 "2025-02-20T22:42:16Z")
Let's talk Genre Change
Is it possible to create an action that will only change part of a genre and not everything.
for example : If I have a track that has the genre of "Urban Hip-Hop" I want to change the genre to "Hip-Hop" but if
if there is a track that only has the genre of "Hip-Hop" in the tag, i want it to ignore and do nothing.
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-change-action-possible/67601/2 "2025-02-20T22:49:13Z")
I would filter for `%genre% IS "Urban Hip-Hop"` then select all found files and simply change the genre in the tag panel to Hip-Hop.
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### Author:  [@mbrazil05](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mbrazil05)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-change-action-possible/67601/3 "2025-02-20T22:55:18Z")
what do you mean by "filter"?
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-change-action-possible/67601/4 "2025-02-20T23:00:50Z")
> **[Filter and Search – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/filter/)**
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> Documentation on Filter and Search and keywords to form complex filter expressions. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
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### Author:  [@mbrazil05](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mbrazil05)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-change-action-possible/67601/5 "2025-02-20T23:58:09Z")
> [@MotleyG](#):
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> %genre% IS
no this does not work. I have to constantly look up each genre. I would prefer to just an action.
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2025, 1:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-change-action-possible/67601/6 "2025-02-21T01:43:52Z")
Right. But you would have to modify your action each time the same way anyhow. Sometimes the simplest way is the best way. How many different genres are you thinking of changing? For one-time uses this is the easiest way.
An alternative is to use the Action named Replace. With your example you could look for "Urban Hip-Hop" and replace it with "Hip-Hop". If you had similar replacement pairs you could create separate Actions for each one, then group them. This would be helpful if you feel you will be doing this regularly.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2025, 7:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-change-action-possible/67601/7 "2025-02-21T07:20:20Z")
> [@mbrazil05](#):
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> genre of "Urban Hip-Hop" I want to change the genre to "Hip-Hop"
I would think that this question has been discussed in this thread:
> [@Create action to move files based off genre](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/create-action-to-move-files-based-off-genre/67469/4):
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> Try as Format string: %genre%\%\_filename%
concisely: you are the only one who knows which genre name should be replaced by which other name, so you have to supply the list.
Sadly, we never got a reply to e.g. this suggestion:
> [@Create action to move files based off genre](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/create-action-to-move-files-based-off-genre/67469/8):
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> As an alternative I would suggest to use
> Format string: `$replace(%genre%,Mumble Rap,Hip Hop,east coast hip hop,Hip Hop)\%_filename%`
> with an increasing list of pairs to replace.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-change-action-possible/67601/8 "2025-04-18T23:05:15Z")
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