# Question about Remove Tag
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/question-about-remove-tag/8733
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 7, 2009, 9:11am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/question-about-remove-tag/8733 "2009-08-07T09:11:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@mjcm](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mjcm)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 9:11am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/question-about-remove-tag/8733/1 "2009-08-07T09:11:56Z")
Hi,
I have under Tools - Option - Tags - Mpeg the following
Read: ID3v1, ID3v2
Write: ID3v2 Utf-16
Remove: ID3v1, APE
and under Tags - Ape, Mpc... the following
Read: ID3v1, APE
Write: -
Remove: ID3v1, APE.
When I click Ctrl-R (Remove Tag) on a Mp3 file that has ID3v1 and ID3v2,
it removes the ID3v1 tag. (Just as expected)
But when I click Ctrl-R (Remove Tag) on a Mp4 file, it removes every tag in that file,
what can I do to change this behaviour ?
And is it possible to Add "Remove Tag" as an action ?
Thx
Mike
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/question-about-remove-tag/8733/2 "2009-08-07T12:14:32Z")
For audio files where Mp3tag uses only one tag format (flac, ogg vorbis, wma, aac in mp4 container) this tag format is always removed.
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> And is it possible to Add "Remove Tag" as an action ?
No.
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### Author:  [@mjcm](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mjcm)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 1:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/question-about-remove-tag/8733/3 "2009-08-07T13:33:00Z")
Thx Dano for the answer.
It is a shame that "Remove Tag" is not available through Actions
(the if($eql(%\_extension%,m4a)...) scripting function would be useful in this case.
Mike
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/question-about-remove-tag/8733/4 "2026-02-09T12:21:41Z")