# Reduce the number of genre tags to just ONE

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reduce-the-number-of-genre-tags-to-just-one/10914
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 7, 2010, 8:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reduce-the-number-of-genre-tags-to-just-one/10914 "2010-10-07T08:33:32Z")
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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2010, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/reduce-the-number-of-genre-tags-to-just-one/10914/2 "2010-10-07T12:13:24Z")

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Make a [new action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1):

_Action type:_ **Replace with regular expressions**  
_Field:_ **GENRE**  
_Regular expression:_ **^(.+?)/.+**  
_Replace matches with:_ **$1**

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