# Suggested Feature: Allow User To Add Items To Drop-Down Boxes

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggested-feature-allow-user-to-add-items-to-drop-down-boxes/18317
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [October 11, 2016, 4:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggested-feature-allow-user-to-add-items-to-drop-down-boxes/18317 "2016-10-11T04:41:26Z")
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#### Post date: [January 16, 2022, 8:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggested-feature-allow-user-to-add-items-to-drop-down-boxes/18317/27 "2022-01-16T08:48:26Z")

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I alreday hate the muiltiple-choice-feature in the genre-field (in spite of knowing that it makes some sense there) but this feature in other fields would be a nogo for me.  
One of the main-features of the tag-panel is the possibility to have a look at the content of that field in a collection of marked files and if you want to set the content equal. This feature is killed by showing a selection of predefined content as it is done already with the genre-field.

My music collection has ten thouthends of artists and probably the same of different composers. What benefit shall a list to select from bring?

For actions to achieve your goal see here:

> [@feature request: select from predetermined tag set for custom fields](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-select-from-predetermined-tag-set-for-custom-fields/18135):
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> Hello - thank you for the incredible software that is Mp3tag. I am thankful that you develop and provide this world-class tool for free. I am trying to achieve a particular goal and am having trouble finding a way to do it efficiently. I want to: [a] Create a custom tag field and [b] populate it for each audio file by selecting tags from a predetermined set of tag values. For example, I want to have a custom tag field named "Mood" and then give Mp3tag a predetermined set of values such as "Da…

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