# Removing Unwanted Genre's

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-unwanted-genres/16946>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [June 4, 2015, 1:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-unwanted-genres/16946 "2015-06-04T13:08:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![cldcp00](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@cldcp00](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cldcp00)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 1:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-unwanted-genres/16946/1 "2015-06-04T13:08:50Z")

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I don't know how it happened but I seem to have every Genre known to man in the Genre: drop-down list box. I wish to remove most of them. Problem is when I go to File \> Options \> Genres there is only 3 Genres in the user-defined-genres list.

I don't know if something is corrupted

See attached screenshot

Any solutions?

 ![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/2/2b3fc727fedbcfadd1943aed578baf31122b9c47.PNG)  

![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/9/92f2d4b586955d322eeaa75df85770bcc50a22b8.PNG)

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**Author:** ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-unwanted-genres/16946/2 "2015-06-04T14:26:42Z")

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> [@Dego](#):
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> I don't know if something is corrupted

Nothing is corrupted.  
These are the predefined extended genres of ID3V1:  
[http://id3.org/id3v2.3.0#Appendix\_A\_-\_Genre\_List\_from\_ID3v1](http://id3.org/id3v2.3.0#Appendix_A_-_Genre_List_from_ID3v1)

There is only one way to get rid of these genres:  
Enable: Show only user-defined genres  
and define genres that you want yourself.  
I never tested if these selfdefined genres are the same as the predefined in case they have the same name.

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**Author:** ![cldcp00](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@cldcp00](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cldcp00)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-unwanted-genres/16946/3 "2015-06-04T19:35:03Z")

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Thanks Much appreciated

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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, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-unwanted-genres/16946/4 "2026-02-09T12:25:42Z")

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Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC