# Removing tags either conditionally or in every case

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-tags-either-conditionally-or-in-every-case/43989>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 24, 2018, 7:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-tags-either-conditionally-or-in-every-case/43989 "2018-12-24T07:18:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![sheepdisease](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@sheepdisease](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sheepdisease)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2018, 7:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-tags-either-conditionally-or-in-every-case/43989/1 "2018-12-24T07:18:27Z")

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Hello there, I realise that I could filter and use extended tags to get rid of things that are unwanted, but that is annoying when I suspect that there is an action which can be created to do the same thing in one step.

Let's say that I have a lot of files and they were bought from Itunes. I want to create an action, which detects and deleted all instances of Itunes as a source, whilst ignoring all other sources and keeping them in place. How can this be achieved with an action?

In another scenario, I may decide that I don't want the source tag at all in a selection of files, how would I delete the source tag for every instance the tag is detected using an action?

Thanks for your help.

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**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2018, 10:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-tags-either-conditionally-or-in-every-case/43989/2 "2018-12-24T10:41:50Z")

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see the help on actions  
in your case could be helpful

- [Remove fields](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/remove-fields)
- [Remove fields except](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/remove-fields-except)

or you replace the pattern in a field so that the field is not filled anymore. Empty fields get removed.

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**Author:** ![sheepdisease](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@sheepdisease](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sheepdisease)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 8:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-tags-either-conditionally-or-in-every-case/43989/3 "2019-01-01T08:50:53Z")

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Thanks for your reply. This did help in some instances.

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-tags-either-conditionally-or-in-every-case/43989/4 "2026-02-09T12:27:49Z")

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