Replace multiple genres with one

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1

I’m trying to create an action to replace several meesed genres into one. Can you please suggest what regex I should use for %genre% to capture anything there?

So far my attempts resulted in replacing every single char with the new genre name (GENREGENREGENRE…)

2

Please show us some real current content from your GENRE and the expected result.

You can create screenshots or copy & paste the current content from your GENRE in your next answer.

3

There are multiple hip-hop related genders which I want to unify under “Hip-Hop”. Currently I havee Hiphop, Rap, Rap/Hip-Hop, HH etc.

4

You want to replace all the existing GENRE in every song that includes one or more of these genres

Hiphop
Rap
Rap/Hip-Hop
HH

with only one GENRE
Hip-Hop
?

5

Precisely, that’s my desire!

6

I don't see yet how to solve it with an Action.

But with Convert Tag -> Tag you could solve it with this Formatstring:
$dedup($regexp(%GENRE%,\b(?:Hiphop|Rap|Rap/Hip-Hop|HH)\b,Hip-Hop),/,1)
you can adjust the list of GENRE divided by a Pipe | as you need.

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would result in 5 x Hip-Hop and 1 x unchanged Pop GENRE content.
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The deduplication only works, if multiple GENREs are divided with a Slash / (without Spaces) like in Rap/Hip-Hop

7

Sounds wonderful, thank you a million!

8

For future readers:

Just to be clear, in the unlikely case that your GENRE content were to be something like
Metal/Rap/Salsa/Soul/HH
your GENRE would be replaced with the above Formatstring to
Metal/Hip-Hop/Salsa/Soul
because Rap and HH would be found, replaced and deduplicated.