# MP3tag Options menu

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-options-menu/69180
**Category:** Mac
**Created:** [July 22, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-options-menu/69180 "2025-07-22T23:47:29Z")
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### Author: ![DjSurda](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@DjSurda](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DjSurda)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-options-menu/69180/3 "2025-07-23T01:45:19Z")

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Thank you for answering MotleyG

I will cheeck if Serato use ID3V2.4 or what.

> [@MotleyG](#):
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> > [@DjSurda](#):
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> > What happens when I remove ID3V1 & APE & just keep ID3V2.3 UTF-16?
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> Again this depends on your use case. If you don't need them, I would consider removing them. But first...

& am not able to know If I need as long as I do not understand it.  
But the general idea you are saying is that is better to keep than deleting & then realizing you need to recover data that have been deleted.

> [@MotleyG](#):
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> Tag data storage size is virtually nothing compared to the audio data space, so anything you have that is valid is easier to keep and not need, than it is to want it later and have to recover it from somewhere.

So yeah, it looks I should delete the minium & still have no clues about how to better understand how to manage the metadata to get what I want, i guess is not an easy answer & takes time (discovering that a metada field could show different data on different softwares was a revelation; this is a previous post [Tag value for genre inconsistent between Mp3tag and iTunes](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-value-for-genre-inconsistent-between-mp3tag-and-itunes/18529)

Thanks!

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