# Replacing Empty Genre Fields with a new Genre

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-empty-genre-fields-with-a-new-genre/16608>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [February 18, 2015, 1:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-empty-genre-fields-with-a-new-genre/16608 "2015-02-18T13:10:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![KLD](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/eb8c5e/32.png) [@KLD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/KLD)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 1:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-empty-genre-fields-with-a-new-genre/16608/1 "2015-02-18T13:10:32Z")

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Love this program, but I need to figure out how to replace empty Genre's with new ones. For example, I have 200 mp3's with nothing in the genre, and I want to insert "Country". I don't want to type this 200 times.

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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:** [February 18, 2015, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-empty-genre-fields-with-a-new-genre/16608/2 "2015-02-18T14:17:59Z")

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> [@Kerri](#):
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> I have 200 mp3's with nothing in the genre, and I want to insert "Country". I don't want to type this 200 times.

Load all files into mp3tag  
Filter for files that have noting in GENRE:  
Press F3 to open the filter section.  
Type in:  
%genre% MISSING  
You should no see only files that have noting set in GENRE.  
Press Ctrl-A to select all files.  
Go to the Tag Panel (usually on the left) and navigate to the entry field for Genre.  
Enter the genre.  
Press Ctrl-S to save the changes.  
Wait for MP3tag to write the modification.  
Done.

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**Author:** ![KLD](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/eb8c5e/32.png) [@KLD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/KLD)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-empty-genre-fields-with-a-new-genre/16608/3 "2015-02-18T14:47:15Z")

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> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> Load all files into mp3tag  
> Filter for files that have noting in GENRE:  
> Press F3 to open the filter section.  
> Type in:  
> %genre% MISSING  
> You should no see only files that have noting set in GENRE.  
> Press Ctrl-A to select all files.  
> Go to the Tag Panel (usually on the left) and navigate to the entry field for Genre.  
> Enter the genre.  
> Press Ctrl-S to save the changes.  
> Wait for MP3tag to write the modification.  
> Done.

THANK YOU!!! ![:w00t:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/cb01eca72fe9339ff6f3ec9f1e3c5fe002be0f0a.gif ":w00t:")

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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/replacing-empty-genre-fields-with-a-new-genre/16608/4 "2026-02-09T12:25:32Z")

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