# Tool to delete tags and add them back
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tool-to-delete-tags-and-add-them-back/60852
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 1, 2023, 11:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tool-to-delete-tags-and-add-them-back/60852 "2023-05-01T11:36:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@DavidGDFC](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DavidGDFC)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 11:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tool-to-delete-tags-and-add-them-back/60852/1 "2023-05-01T11:36:24Z")
Hi, Florian (and members of this community),
Yesterday, I used the _Verification_ tool in Foobar to check my music library, which detected tag problems in several albums:
Decoded with minor problems.
File contains ID3v2 garbage
Warning: Garbage at the end of file (ID3 tag?)
I opened one of those problematic albums on Mp3tag and I clicked on _Save Tag_, hoping that, while saving again the tags, it would fix potential problems, but Foobar still detected the same issues.
Later on, I tried a different approach: I deleted all the tags and then I tagged the album again. It did work, but it's really time consuming to type all the tags back.
So, my question is whether there's a tool to fix potential problems, and more specifically, a tool that removes all the tags and immediately and automatically puts them back.
Thank you for your help (we've interacted a few times on Twitter, but only today I decided to create this account here).
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 11:47am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tool-to-delete-tags-and-add-them-back/60852/2 "2023-05-01T11:47:02Z")
> [@DavidGDFC](#):
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> a tool that removes all the tags and immediately and automatically puts them back.
You can cut and paste more or less all the tags from all the files in 1 go - if you dare. The problem could be that if the PC stops working, then all the data that is only in the volatile memory will be lost.
Here are some links to other tools to check MP3 files:
> [@How to check files for errors?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633):
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> It’s required and often helps to reduce support cycles to check files for errors before filing a bug report. Symptoms of erroneous files are often missing or wrong bitrate or length audible blips or skips tags seem to be sticky and cannot be removed There are some really good tools to check the files for errors, namely MP3 Diags — identifies many different issues in MP3 files Website: [http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net) Download: [MP3 Diags - Getting MP3 Diags](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net/010_getting_the_program.html#binWindows) If the font size in MP3 Diags is …
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### Author:  [@DavidGDFC](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DavidGDFC)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 11:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tool-to-delete-tags-and-add-them-back/60852/3 "2023-05-01T11:58:44Z")
Thank you for your message: I did know about MP3 Diags.
After your message, I had a look at the _Extended Tags_ tool and I hadn't noticed that, in fact, you can select all your tags, copy them and, after deleting the tags, paste them back.
The only problem is that it only seems to work for tags which have the same value for all the tracks of your album. Otherwise, it doesn't do anything and the tag stays empty: for example, this behaviour affects to the _Title_ tag.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 12:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tool-to-delete-tags-and-add-them-back/60852/4 "2023-05-01T12:38:23Z")
> [@DavidGDFC](#):
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> The only problem is that it only seems to work for tags which have the same value for all the tracks of your album.
Not, the procedure goes like this:
Load the files
Select a set of all of the files, depending on your adventurousness
Right-click on the selected files in the file list
Select "Cut tag" from the context menu
Let MP3tag do the cutting from all the selected files in 1 go
Right-click on the selected files in the file list
Select "Paste tag" from the context menu
This pastes the just previously cut tags back to the files.
The "tag" is a collection of tag fields. What you see in the "extended tags" dialgoue is the list of tag fields in all the selected files.
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### Author:  [@DavidGDFC](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DavidGDFC)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tool-to-delete-tags-and-add-them-back/60852/5 "2023-05-01T13:21:08Z")
It worked really well: thanks!
You said I had to be adventurous, but if process itself is safe and doesn't change the contents or the format or encoding of the characters, then I'll proceed. My laptop shouldn't shut down out of the blue. I'll do it album by album just in case.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 1:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tool-to-delete-tags-and-add-them-back/60852/6 "2023-05-01T13:27:49Z")
The process itself works safely.
A good idea is always to have backups somewhere.
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### Author:  [@DavidGDFC](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DavidGDFC)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tool-to-delete-tags-and-add-them-back/60852/7 "2023-05-01T13:41:03Z")
OK then! Thanks for your help! You'll save me a lot of time.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2023, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tool-to-delete-tags-and-add-them-back/60852/8 "2023-05-31T13:41:30Z")
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