# Selective deletion of tags **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [March 25, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/selective-deletion-of-tags/18830 "2017-03-25T03:05:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![solarscream](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/solarscream/32/463_2.png) [@solarscream](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/solarscream)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/selective-deletion-of-tags/18830/1 "2017-03-25T03:05:42Z")
How to delete different types of tags selectively via MP3Tag? I know the only one way to delete the whole tags (Ctrl + R) but this is not what I need. As for me, I need to delete APEv2 tags only (from my huge MP3 collection of 108+ thousand tracks). How to do that? I use MP3Tag 2.81b ---
**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:** [March 25, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/selective-deletion-of-tags/18830/2 "2017-03-25T04:27:56Z")
Have a look at File -\> Options -\> Tags -\> MPEG -\> Remove. There you have to uncheck all but Ape But are you sure, that you don't loose tags if you do so? Maby it is necesarry to move some Ape-tags to ID3V2 before. ---
**Author:** ![solarscream](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/solarscream/32/463_2.png) [@solarscream](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/solarscream)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 5:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/selective-deletion-of-tags/18830/3 "2017-03-25T05:05:11Z")
> [@poster](#): > > Have a look at > File -\> Options -\> Tags -\> MPEG -\> Remove. > There you have to uncheck all but Ape Why "all but APE"? Why is it so, because I need v.v. to remove strictly APEv2? > [@poster](#): > > \<...\> are you sure, that you don't loose tags if you do so? \<...\> I don't know the operational scheme of this process, therefore I can't answer you. On the other hand, why the other tags will be deleted if I work with APEv2 only? ---
**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:** [March 25, 2017, 7:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/selective-deletion-of-tags/18830/4 "2017-03-25T07:26:31Z")
> [@solarscream88](#): > > Why "all but APE"? Why is it so, because I need v.v. to remove strictly APEv2? If you uncheck ID3V1 and ID3V2 and leave only Ape ckecked there will only Ape tags been removed with "Remove Tags"-command. > [@](#): > > I don't know the operational scheme of this process, therefore I can't answer you. > On the other hand, why the other tags will be deleted if I work with APEv2 only? There will be no other tags removed. But it is possible that files don't have the same content in ID3v2-tags and the corresponding Ape-Tags and what you see in MP3Tag are maybe only the contents of Ape-Tags. So it may be necessary to transfer Ape-Tags to ID3v2. The only way to see if your ID3V2-Tags are complete as you want is to set the appropiate Read-setting in File -\> Options -\> Tags -\> MPEG -\> Read to ID3V2 only. (uncheck Ape) and load the files. An example: There maybe an Ape-Tag "ALBUM" filled and not an ID3v2-Tag "ALBUM". So removing the Ape-Tags you will loose the information about the album. There may also be different tag-content in the Ape-Tag "ALBUM" and the ID3V2-Tag "ALBUM". If you tell MP3Tag in the options to read all tags the prority to show the tag content is Ape - ID3v2 - ID3v1 So if you have checked to read all tags, a present content of an Ape-Tag will show in MP3Tag regardless if there is other content for this tag or no tag content at all in ID3v2-Tags. ---
**Author:** ![solarscream](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/solarscream/32/463_2.png) [@solarscream](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/solarscream)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 9:16am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/selective-deletion-of-tags/18830/5 "2017-03-25T09:16:43Z")
> [@poster](#): > > An example: > \<...\> Many thanks to you! I fully understood your think. Will check first. Then clear if possible. ---
**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, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/selective-deletion-of-tags/18830/6 "2026-02-09T12:26:44Z")