# Synchronize or merge APE & ID3 Tags? **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [July 10, 2020, 10:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/synchronize-or-merge-ape-id3-tags/49581 "2020-07-10T22:16:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**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:** [July 11, 2020, 6:02am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/synchronize-or-merge-ape-id3-tags/49581/2 "2020-07-11T06:02:02Z")
> [@lotus1922](#): > > he APE's have info that the Id3 doesn't have, and the ID3 has info that the APE doesn't. Are you sure that there are no files with the same APE-tag-fields and ID3-tag-fields but different content. > [@Selective deletion of tags](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/selective-deletion-of-tags/18830/4): > > If you uncheck ID3V1 and ID3V2 and leave only Ape ckecked there will only Ape tags been removed with "Remove Tags"-command. 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 F… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/synchronize-or-merge-ape-id3-tags/49581)._