# Selectable mp3tag configurations **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/selectable-mp3tag-configurations/18631 **Category:** General Discussion **Created:** [January 25, 2017, 6:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/selectable-mp3tag-configurations/18631 "2017-01-25T06:04:58Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 1
### Author: ![d2b](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@d2b](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/d2b) #### Post date: [January 25, 2017, 6:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/selectable-mp3tag-configurations/18631/1 "2017-01-25T06:04:58Z")
We are concerned primarily with tagging FLAC files. Depending on the genre of the music, it would be desirable to be able to easily switch the configuration of mp3tag so that different items appear in the tag panel and in the grid to the right. A good example of this requirement is when tagging tracks whose content is a medley of tunes rather than a single song or tune. This circumstance arises regularly when working with Celtic files. Many Celtic tracks have a "short name" but actually comprise a series of tunes in a medley, each with different titles and composers. Our current approach to that is to create a MEDLEY tag. When the tag is set to "1", the system reading the tags will "know" to find the following tags and correlate them accordingly. Assume for the moment that there are three distinct tunes in the medley. In this case, we want to assign TTILE1 to the first tune, TITLE2 to name the second tune and TITLE3 for the third. The TITLE tag is used for the "short name." Corresponding to the tune's titles, we would use COMPOSER1 to identify the compser(s) of the first tune and so on, with the composers or songwriters of the other two tunes on the track identified with COMPOSER2 and COMPOSER3 tags. For tracks with only one song or tune, the standard COMPOSER and TTILE tags suffice. In the current album I'm working on, some of the tracks have as many as five tunes per track. Configuring mp3tag to accommodate the desired medley tag plus six title and six composer tags is certainly possible but the tag panel and grid would become overpopulated and cluttered for the 95% of the albums we tag that have only one tune or song per track. In addition, classical albums are another special case wherein the field requirements differ from popular and country music. Here's one idea: is there a way to install, say, three different config files in the user/.../roaming folder for mp3tag and then launch mp3tag using only one of those configurations at a time? Are we the only ones that would benefit from being able to select from one of several configurations when launching the program? It isn't necessary to switch on the fly between configurations. Closing the app and relaunching it into another configuration would be more than acceptable! I hope someone has a solution for this. Thanks in advance for suggestions or a solution. Dennis....aka "d2b" P.S. It has occurred to me that it may be possible to do this using different "portable installations" with three different thumb drives from which to launch mp3tag. However, we have a number of volunteers working on this project at the radio station and in various homes and individual locations out of town. Keeping everyone in sync is already a problem but we can deal with that by emailing a zip file to them to update their configurations when needed. Providing preprogrammed memory sticks is out of the question. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/selectable-mp3tag-configurations/18631)._