# How to remove RATING tag for batch
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-rating-tag-for-batch/12710
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 18, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-rating-tag-for-batch/12710 "2011-11-18T01:15:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@olc](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/olc)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-rating-tag-for-batch/12710/1 "2011-11-18T01:15:25Z")
I have several thousand files on a hard drive, separated into folder by album. I would like to remove the RATING tag from all the files, and doing it file by file or even folder by folder is exhausting. Is there some way to do a batch process of some hind to simply remove the RATING tag from all the files?
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### Author:  [@stevehero](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/stevehero)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2011, 3:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-rating-tag-for-batch/12710/2 "2011-11-18T03:20:29Z")
Take time to read [this](https://community.mp3tag.de/c/faq-frequently-asked-questions) first. But your problem is fixed by going to **actions\>remove fields**
and simply adding the field you want removed.
ps. that information would be usefull in order to give a full answer.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2011, 5:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-rating-tag-for-batch/12710/3 "2011-11-18T05:14:44Z")
> [@olc](#):
>
> I have several thousand files on a hard drive, separated into folder by album. I would like to remove the RATING tag from all the files, and doing it file by file or even folder by folder is exhausting. Is there some way to do a batch process of some hind to simply remove the RATING tag from all the files?
Navigate to the top-most folder, load all the files into MP3tag.
Select all files in the files list.
Press Atl-T to open the Extended Tags dialogue.
Select the tag field that you want to delete and press the red x-button.
Press OK for the extended tags dialogue.
The modified fields will be handled. Which may take a while.
If you want to handle only those files which really have the ratings-field, then enter a filter:
(the name of the variable depends on the actually found field as there are several ratings fields)
NOT %rating wmp% IS ""
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### Author:  [@olc](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/olc)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-rating-tag-for-batch/12710/4 "2011-11-22T01:32:20Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> Navigate to the top-most folder, load all the files into MP3tag.
> Select all files in the files list.
> Press Atl-T to open the Extended Tags dialogue.
> Select the tag field that you want to delete and press the red x-button.
> Press OK for the extended tags dialogue.
> The modified fields will be handled. Which may take a while.
>
> If you want to handle only those files which really have the ratings-field, then enter a filter:
> (the name of the variable depends on the actually found field as there are several ratings fields)
> NOT %rating wmp% IS ""
I'm stuck on the first step. The topmost folder, Albums, only has subfolders, one for each album. If I select this folder in mp3tag it shows no music files. I have used the method you suggest to do one album subfolder at a time, but I have thousands of them.
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### Author:  [@olc](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/olc)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-rating-tag-for-batch/12710/5 "2011-11-22T01:43:28Z")
> [@stevehero](#):
>
> Take time to read [this](https://community.mp3tag.de/c/faq-frequently-asked-questions) first. But your problem is fixed by going to **actions\>remove fields**
>
> and simply adding the field you want removed.
>
> ps. that information would be usefull in order to give a full answer.
I created a new action to remove the RATING field. The problem is that the apply it to the files I have to get the files into the filename panel in mp3tag. I can't see how to to this for more than one music file folder (album) at a time. If I could figure out how to do this, I could use an action or the extended tags list to remove the RATING tag from all the files.
Any tips appreciated.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 5:34am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-rating-tag-for-batch/12710/6 "2011-11-22T05:34:11Z")
> [@olc](#):
>
> I created a new action to remove the RATING field. The problem is that the apply it to the files I have to get the files into the filename panel in mp3tag. I can't see how to to this for more than one music file folder (album) at a time. If I could figure out how to do this, I could use an action or the extended tags list to remove the RATING tag from all the files.
>
> Any tips appreciated.
Check in File\>Options\>General whether you have ticked "subfolders".
THis should read a folder and all its subfolders.
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### Author:  [@olc](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/olc)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-rating-tag-for-batch/12710/7 "2011-12-06T23:27:19Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> Check in File\>Options\>General whether you have ticked "subfolders".
> THis should read a folder and all its subfolders.
Thanks. That did it. I looked for such an option everywhere but where it was.
Feeling foolish, so thanks again.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-rating-tag-for-batch/12710/8 "2026-02-09T12:23:27Z")