# Genre metadata not exporting

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-metadata-not-exporting/65499
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 6, 2024, 11:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-metadata-not-exporting/65499 "2024-08-06T11:42:46Z")
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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2024, 6:31am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-metadata-not-exporting/65499/16 "2024-08-10T06:31:16Z")

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> [@hitest](#):
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> and then sort every field or column alphjabetically

You can do this in MP3tag by clicking on the column header.  
If you are not satisfied with the result, you can set a format string including scripting functions to get the sort criteria.

Yes, admittedly, finding duplicates by tag data is not possible with MP3tag - see also this discussion on the drawbacks when using just the tag data to find alleged duplicates:

> [@Find Duplicate Files in Different Music Directories](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/find-duplicate-files-in-different-music-directories/47952):
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> Can MP3TAG be used to identify duplicate files in different sub-directories if a listing is done from the top level Music directory? If not, this would be a great feature that would help to further cleanup and organize a music library by matching all tags in duplicated files and would attract many DJs like me. It would be worth the cost. DJ Blade Sparx

> [@hitest](#):
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> I need a way to display all the duplicate files within a windows folder.

I doubt that there are duplicates in a folder or at least they have to different in respect to the filename.  
So get these, you may apply an action to set the filename with a unifying pattern and see where this fails as it would rename to several files with the same name.  
You could then treat these files straightaway in MP3tag.

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