# Permantely Add New Genre
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/permantely-add-new-genre/48466
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 7, 2020, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/permantely-add-new-genre/48466 "2020-04-07T17:17:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@hwrd69](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/hwrd69)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2020, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/permantely-add-new-genre/48466/1 "2020-04-07T17:17:04Z")
I would like to add a new genre to the list that I use frequently without having to add an extra genre to an existing one (i.e., select Post-Metal vs Post-Rock\Post-Metal). Is this possible? Wouldn't it be more convenient to have a file (text, etc.) that contains the list of genres and you could add or remove what was or was not needed?
I'm a newbie and I'm looking forward to getting more experience with the program and utilizing it for my collections of music.
Thanks for your responses and I appreciate your patience with my questioning.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/permantely-add-new-genre/48466/2 "2020-04-07T17:31:43Z")
Perhaps this helps:
> [@Want to empty the Genre drop-down list](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/want-to-empty-the-genre-drop-down-list/15694):
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> I have my MP3 library set up in such a way that only a single case is used for each field, like lower-case for Albums and Titles, and upper-case for Artists and Composers. This seems odd, but I hate it when MP3 albums never consistently use case correctly, and it always varies - at least this way I don't have to worry about that aspect of the ID3v2 tags. Case-changing is quite easy to implement with Case Conversion and the Actions subsystem, but I wish that I could stop the Genre tag from conti…
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### Author:  [@hwrd69](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/hwrd69)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2020, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/permantely-add-new-genre/48466/3 "2020-04-08T12:52:02Z")
ohrenkino,
Thanks for the info. From what I read (unless I missed something) is that I can add new genre types, but I can't clear them from the drop-down list. If that's true, at least I can add some customization to my list.
Thanks again
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 7:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/permantely-add-new-genre/48466/4 "2020-04-09T07:14:24Z")
THe standard list cannot be modified.
You can choose whether you only want to see the user-defined genres.
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 8:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/permantely-add-new-genre/48466/5 "2020-04-09T08:14:37Z")
> [@hwrd69](#):
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> From what I read (unless I missed something) is that I can add new genre types, but I can't clear them from the drop-down list.
You clear them from the drop-down-list with enabling the option "Show only user-defined genres". So all standard-genres are not shown and you have to define every genre in the user-list yourself, even the standard-ones that you would like to keep too.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2020, 9:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/permantely-add-new-genre/48466/6 "2020-04-20T09:43:20Z")
6 posts were merged into an existing topic: [Genre\> Adding default fields](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-adding-default-fields/48561/7)
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2020, 9:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/permantely-add-new-genre/48466/7 "2020-04-20T09:43:47Z")