# I'm curious...
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/im-curious/685
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [December 30, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/im-curious/685 "2003-12-30T17:11:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@beaker](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/beaker)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/im-curious/685/1 "2003-12-30T17:11:19Z")
...why did you make this change?
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> CHG removed 'Plaintext Genres' option for ID3v2
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/im-curious/685/2 "2003-12-30T18:02:57Z")
I'm heavily reworking the various tagging mechanisms at the moment and I'm planning to write the genre always in plaintext to the next final release.
That's mainly because not all programs are implementing the ID3v2 standard with the format _(genre#)Plaintext-Genre_, but AFAIK all programs are reading plaintext genres.
~ Florian
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### Author:  [@beaker](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/beaker)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/im-curious/685/3 "2003-12-30T18:49:48Z")
Perfect. I was concerned because I write in plaintext. 🙂 Thanks
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/im-curious/685/4 "2003-12-30T21:11:55Z")
Pure plaintext is now available with the latest development build.