# Multiple genres per album
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-genres-per-album/11115
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 13, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-genres-per-album/11115 "2010-11-13T20:47:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Coil](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Coil)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-genres-per-album/11115/1 "2010-11-13T20:47:36Z")
Hi,
Is it possible to use a filter to find albums with more than one genre?
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2010, 5:27am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-genres-per-album/11115/2 "2010-11-14T05:27:18Z")
> [@Coil](#):
>
> Hi, Is it possible to use a filter to find albums with more than one genre?
Multi-value tag-field GENRE:
Groove Metal\\Symphonic Black Metal\\Thrash Metal
Example1:
("$meta(GENRE)" HAS "Metal") AND ("$meta(GENRE)" HAS "Groove")
Example2:
("$meta(GENRE)', '" HAS "Groove Metal, ") AND ("$meta(GENRE)', '" HAS "Thrash Metal, ")
Example3:
"$if($eql($meta(GENRE,1),),0,1)" IS 1
See also:
[https://docs.mp3tag.de/filter](https://docs.mp3tag.de/filter)
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### Author:  [@Coil](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Coil)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2010, 6:01am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-genres-per-album/11115/3 "2010-11-14T06:01:31Z")
> [@DetlevD](#):
>
> Multi-value tag-field GENRE:
> Groove Metal\\Symphonic Black Metal\\Thrash Metal
>
> Example1:
> ("$meta(GENRE)" HAS "Metal") AND ("$meta(GENRE)" HAS "Groove")
>
> Example2:
> ("$meta(GENRE)', '" HAS "Groove Metal, ") AND ("$meta(GENRE)', '" HAS "Thrash Metal, ")
>
> Example3:
> "$if($eql($meta(GENRE,1),),0,1)" IS 1
>
> See also:
> [https://docs.mp3tag.de/filter](https://docs.mp3tag.de/filter)
>
> DD.20101114.0733.CET
Hi DetlevD,
Thanks for your quick answer and examples. I will try to be more exact. How can I find an album where GENRE is \> 1? I have tried
"$if($eql($meta(GENRE,1),),0,1)" IS 1
but that didn't work.
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2010, 12:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-genres-per-album/11115/4 "2010-11-14T12:38:15Z")
> [@Coil](#):
>
> ... I will try to be more exact. How can I find an album where GENRE is \> 1? I have tried
> "$if($eql($meta(GENRE,1),),0,1)" IS 1
> but that didn't work.
It works for me. See attached picture.
Try it out using this example file:
[20101114.Genre.Multiple.Example.mp3](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/f/fed4ebfdc4cdd133ac07cd48ec7cff182a4d2274.mp3) (2.03 KB)
And this works too to detect a file which contains a multi-value GENRE tag-field.
"$iflonger($regexp($meta(GENRE),'[^,]',),,1,0)" IS 1
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[20101114.Genre.Multiple.Example.mp3](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/f/fed4ebfdc4cdd133ac07cd48ec7cff182a4d2274.mp3) (2.03 KB)
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### Author:  [@Coil](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Coil)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2010, 12:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-genres-per-album/11115/5 "2010-11-14T12:44:38Z")
> [@DetlevD](#):
>
> It works for me. See attached picture.
> 
>
> Try it out using this example file:
> [20101114.Genre.Multiple.Example.mp3](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/f/fed4ebfdc4cdd133ac07cd48ec7cff182a4d2274.mp3) (2.03 KB)
>
> DD.20101114.1437.CET
Sorry I wasn't clear enough, but I'm looking for multiple genres per album, and not per song. In my 60.000 plus collection I have seen some albums with, let's say 10 songs, where 5 songs have genre Rock, and 5 songs have Pop-Rock. I would like to query my collection to see if there are more albums were different genres are used.
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2010, 1:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-genres-per-album/11115/6 "2010-11-14T13:02:24Z")
> [@Coil](#):
>
> Sorry I wasn't clear enough, but I'm looking for multiple genres per album, and not per song. In my 60.000 plus collection I have seen some albums with, let's say 10 songs, where 5 songs have genre Rock, and 5 songs have Pop-Rock. I would like to query my collection to see if there are more albums were different genres are used.
Yes you wrote "album", sorry, I have overlooked this particular information.
In general it makes sense, that different files within an album can contain different music of different genre types, and it is not a fault per se.
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### Author:  [@Coil](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Coil)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2010, 1:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/multiple-genres-per-album/11115/7 "2010-11-14T13:07:28Z")
> [@DetlevD](#):
>
> Yes you wrote "album", sorry, I have overlooked this particular information.
>
> In general it makes sense, that different files within an album can contain different music of different genre types, and it is not a fault per se.
>
> DD.20101114.1503.CET
Of course, I agree, multiple genres within an album is not a fault per se, but how do I query my collection to find this?
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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/multiple-genres-per-album/11115/8 "2026-02-09T12:22:41Z")