# Multiple Genres in 1 Genre tag **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-genres-in-1-genre-tag/17159 **Category:** Support **Created:** [August 17, 2015, 11:12am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-genres-in-1-genre-tag/17159 "2015-08-17T11:12:23Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 5
### Author: ![babloyi](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@babloyi](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/babloyi) #### Post date: [August 17, 2015, 3:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-genres-in-1-genre-tag/17159/5 "2015-08-17T15:42:50Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#): > > The \\ is an indicator solely for MP3tag to create several GENRE fields when saving. > Check the extended tags to see that right now you have more than one GENRE field. > There is no standard to cope with multi-value fields. So the abilities vary from player to player. > > E.g. WMP treats "semikolon-blank" as a data separator. Although the data for e.g. composer is in one field, WMP presents each part of the string separately. > iTunes, on the other hand, does not split up the data but shows it as the contents of just one field. > > And: players that prefer V1 tags to V2 tags will not be able to cope with user-defined genres. > So, sorry: you have to try it with your preferred player, there is no standard solution. Oh dear... Okay, so getting specific, ID3v2.3, which is the tag standard the majority of my music is saved as, supports multiple values for genre, correct? Or am I wrong? What exactly is the system that the standard uses to support this feature? Does it go into the specifics of what delimiter ("\\" or ";") should be used, or is that just something for our convenience on the tagger side of things, and irrelevant to the way the tags are actually stored? If I tag my multiple genres separating them with a "\\", would a player that was properly and specifically designed to parse ID3v2.3 tags properly pick up on it (and does such a player currently exist)? I just don't want to tag my entire collection, and then a couple years down the line learn that the standard has been updated and the new one is not backwards compatible, or nobody uses the standard anymore, or I wasn't following the standard in the first place. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-genres-in-1-genre-tag/17159)._