# How to configure the menu option: Configuration/Tags?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-configure-the-menu-option-configuration-tags/11321
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 21, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-configure-the-menu-option-configuration-tags/11321 "2010-12-21T13:14:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Brainvoyager](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Brainvoyager)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-configure-the-menu-option-configuration-tags/11321/1 "2010-12-21T13:14:45Z")
I have 18,527 mp3 files in on my harddisk. A result of 5 years putting a lot of efforts in collecting them. I have tagged all my MP3's with Tag&Rename (ID3V2.3, that has always been working fine for me). Recently I bought the Fantec R2650 mediaplayer. This mediaplayer can't read ID3v2.3 tags properly. I was directed to MP3Tag by a posting on the Fantec Forum. MP3Tag can write ID3V2.4 (4 UTF-8), a format which my Fantec mediaplayer can read properly.
I just screwed up all the tags of my 18,527 MP3 collection. I was trying to get rid of the APE tags and to convert to ID3V2.4 tags only. I discovered that a lot of my MP3's have APE tags aswell and in my opinion I don't need them (is that right?). I have been trying a number of settings (the checkboxes) under the Configuration/Tags/Mpeg (MP3) and under Configuration/Tags/APE, MPC... I guess I must have done something wrong because all my tags are gone now! Of course I have a backup of my mp3 collection on another external harddisk so I can put them all back.
Question:
I want to get rid of all the APE tags. I want only ID3V2.4 (4 UTF-8) tags. Who can tell me exactly how to configure the tag options under Configuration/Tags for both the checkboxes under Mpeg (MP3) and the checkboxes under APE, MPC...
Of course I read the help files but I just don't understand the explanation geven therein. I just don't understand what the difference is of all the checkboxes... ☹
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-configure-the-menu-option-configuration-tags/11321/2 "2010-12-21T13:48:36Z")
For mp3 files, only Options/Tags/Mpeg is needed.
You should proceed with two steps:
1. Remove APE tags.
- At Tags/Mpeg below " **Remove**" only select APE
- Then use Ctrl+R to remove the APE tags.
1. Convert id3v2.3 to id3v2.4
- At Tags/Mpeg below " **Write**" choose id3v2.4 utf-8
- Then use Ctrl+S to convert
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### Author:  [@Brainvoyager](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Brainvoyager)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2010, 9:01am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-configure-the-menu-option-configuration-tags/11321/3 "2010-12-22T09:01:21Z")
Hi Dano,
Thank you very much!
I followed your advice and all went perfectly well!!!!
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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/how-to-configure-the-menu-option-configuration-tags/11321/4 "2026-02-09T12:22:46Z")