# Suggesting a change in choosing Genre
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggesting-a-change-in-choosing-genre/46676
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [October 8, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggesting-a-change-in-choosing-genre/46676 "2019-10-08T18:40:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Mugsy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Mugsy)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggesting-a-change-in-choosing-genre/46676/1 "2019-10-08T18:40:42Z")
I'd like to be able to pick all genres that apply to a song or album, with out having to type out each one followed by a , (comma).
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggesting-a-change-in-choosing-genre/46676/2 "2019-10-08T18:52:06Z")
The standard sees one value per tag field.
Using a comma separated list of genres does not comply with the standard - even though your player may show this list.
Other players use "semicolon blank" as separator between values but still use only one tag field for e.g. GENRE.
Other players understand multivalue fields which are several fields of the same type.
So I doubt that a way to create a non-standard tag field content should be implemented.
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2019, 8:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggesting-a-change-in-choosing-genre/46676/3 "2019-10-13T20:51:16Z")
You could also think of using something like your own fixed list of genres
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1] You decide to use for example `POP`, `POP ROCK` or `ROCK-POP`, `ROCK`, `ROCK-ALTERNATIVE`, `HARD ROCK` or `ROCK - HARD` etc.
2] You add a menu of actions under the Actions Groups icon, that would put one oft those pre-chosen by you names in the `GENRE` tag field. You can also put more than one in the tag. You can also write these names by hand, not using the action. After recent change
> [@Actions menu within menu - a multilevel Actions menu](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-menu-within-menu-a-multilevel-actions-menu/44859):
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> I was just trying to that on my own and then tried to find info about that in the online help and searched for posts- and failed. So here it goes: Is it possible to create [sub]menu within a menu for Action Groups? To have a tree of menus for Actions?
it is possible to use a multilevel menu
3] You create an action to sort them out in an alphabetical way:
> [@Moving part of TITLE to GENRE](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-part-of-title-to-genre/16859/):
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> Hello I would like to know, if it is possible to create an action group that would do this: 1] look at the end of TITLE tag 2] if there is a "##something" or "## something" or "0000", move it to the beginning of GENRE tag 3] look again at the end of TITLE tag 4] if there is a "##something" or "## something", move it to the beginning of GENRE tag; with the addition of two pauses after it 5] stop looking as soon as the end of the title tag runs out of the "##" indicator 6] rearrange numeric…
4] You can also use some other tag field than the `GENRE` [even a made up one] but being aware of that some players may not display some date properly or even whole tag fields
> [@\[X\] Can't copy some unusual TRACK tags from MP3 / FLAC to WMA](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-cant-copy-some-unusual-track-tags-from-mp3-flac-to-wma/17714):
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> Till recently, I was using only MP3's and FLACs; with tags in ID3v2.3 UTF-16. And I was using tag fields not in a "standard" way, with a bunch of signs different than just letters and numbers, but had not problems with them whatsoever But now it seems I have found a bug If the value in the TRACK tag field starts with a dot sign . I simply cannot copy such value to a WMA format. But if that dot was behind I number, then there would be no problem. Also if I have a letter or letters in the TRACK …
> [@Mapping of tag fields - is it really needed at all?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mapping-of-tag-fields-is-it-really-needed-at-all/19791/2):
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> [I also posted a version of this post on the Winamp's forum [http://forums.shoutcast.com/showthread.php?p=2662015](http://forums.shoutcast.com/showthread.php?p=2662015) but it awaits moderation, so it may be, that this knowledge will see the daylight only here] This Advanced Title Formatting in Winamp has serious limitations It seems that users are confined only to the very basic fields: TITLE ARTIST ALBUM YEAR TRACK GENRE COMMENT as they are used by various formats And by confined I mean a set up like this: I use FLAC, MP3, TTA and WV files. …
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[Please note that some of the post in the threads that I evoke here are messed up in display - they should be taken care for as I already flagged them for attention by the stuff - so if you want to implement solutions discussed there please wait some time]