# Replace multiple genres with one
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-multiple-genres-with-one/70287
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 5, 2025, 10:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-multiple-genres-with-one/70287 "2025-12-05T10:53:28Z")
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### Author:  [@mikolajek](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mikolajek)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2025, 10:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-multiple-genres-with-one/70287/1 "2025-12-05T10:53:28Z")
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…)
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2025, 11:47am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-multiple-genres-with-one/70287/2 "2025-12-05T11:47:13Z")
Please show us some real current content from your GENRE and the expected result.
You can create [screenshots](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/hints-for-asking-support-requests/56190#p-168842-use-screenshots-to-exemplify-the-issue-2) or copy & paste the current content from your GENRE in your next answer.
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### Author:  [@mikolajek](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mikolajek)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2025, 11:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-multiple-genres-with-one/70287/3 "2025-12-05T11:59:51Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2025, 12:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-multiple-genres-with-one/70287/4 "2025-12-05T12:34:51Z")
You want to replace all the existing GENRE in every song that includes one or more of these genres
```auto
Hiphop
Rap
Rap/Hip-Hop
HH
```
with only one GENRE
`Hip-Hop`
?
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### Author:  [@mikolajek](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mikolajek)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2025, 12:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-multiple-genres-with-one/70287/5 "2025-12-05T12:36:14Z")
Precisely, that’s my desire!
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-multiple-genres-with-one/70287/6 "2025-12-05T12:57:09Z")
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.
would result in 5 x Hip-Hop and 1 x unchanged Pop GENRE content.
The deduplication only works, if multiple GENREs are divided with a Slash `/` (without Spaces) like in `Rap/Hip-Hop`
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### Author:  [@mikolajek](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mikolajek)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2025, 1:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-multiple-genres-with-one/70287/7 "2025-12-05T13:01:25Z")
Sounds wonderful, thank you a million!
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2025, 1:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-multiple-genres-with-one/70287/8 "2025-12-05T13:13:19Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2026, 1:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replace-multiple-genres-with-one/70287/9 "2026-01-04T13:13:40Z")
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