# Genre work-around leaves the building with V2.94

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-work-around-leaves-the-building-with-v2-94/44687
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 1, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-work-around-leaves-the-building-with-v2-94/44687 "2019-03-01T21:03:01Z")
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#### Post date: [March 2, 2019, 7:10am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-work-around-leaves-the-building-with-v2-94/44687/7 "2019-03-02T07:10:52Z")

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> [@ryerman](#):
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> For Vorbis Comments and ID3v2.3 tags, it can be done by using a user defined field that is mapped with GENRE.

Yes it it a workaround.  
But:

- As you told it works vor VORBIS COMMENT and ID3V2.  
I am writing ID3v2 **and** ID3v1 for compatibilty-reasons and Id3v1 does not work this way.

- And I used both versions of the double-genre-field in the tag-panel. For new albums I used the predefined list for correct spelling and to look for the already existent genre-tags in a group of file (i.e. an abum or an artist) I used the second field. This gave me the opportunity to equate genre-tags for an album or an artist, if I wanted to do this.

But as it seems every "creative" solution has an end:

> [@Is it possible to create a second box in the tag panel for Genre which will list the genres in the selected files?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-it-possible-to-create-a-second-box-in-the-tag-panel-for-genre-which-will-list-the-genres-in-the-selected-files/19729/12):
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> I'm fine with the workaround of editing the \*.ini field manually — in fact, I find it to be quite creative 🙂 However, no promise is made whether this will work forever (though, I have no plans of breaking this).

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