# Updating Genre issue
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/updating-genre-issue/68458
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 10, 2025, 11:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/updating-genre-issue/68458 "2025-05-10T11:50:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@promix](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/promix)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2025, 11:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/updating-genre-issue/68458/1 "2025-05-10T11:50:39Z")
I wanted to share some feedback about an issue I’ve been running into. Right now, when I update the genre tag for a song (not when creating a new tag, but modifying an existing one), the software doesn’t provide auto-suggestions, even though I’ve already uploaded all my genres to the list.
It works fine when creating a tag from scratch, but not when editing an existing one. This slows down the process and also increases the chance of errors.
I think this could be fixed pretty easily, what do you think?
Nikola
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2025, 11:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/updating-genre-issue/68458/2 "2025-05-10T11:53:17Z")
What settings do you have activated for
File -\> Options -\> Tag Panel -\> for your `GENRE` field?
See also here:
> [@Add custom user-defined Genres](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/add-custom-user-defined-genres/61122):
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> Add and Edit user-defined Genres via Custom List Values Every field on the Tag Panel can have custom values added to its drop-down list. These can be customized via [Options → Tag Panel](https://docs.mp3tag.de/customization/tag-panel/) and the Genre field is no exception. You can use Options → Tag Panel → Genre → Custom list values → Manage... to edit the list of custom Genres and also hide the standard genres, if you prefer your own. The following screenshot exemplifies the process: Import and Export of Custom Lis…
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### Author:  [@promix](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/promix)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2025, 12:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/updating-genre-issue/68458/3 "2025-05-10T12:05:33Z")
My settings:
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2025, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/updating-genre-issue/68458/4 "2025-05-10T12:13:36Z")
> [@promix](#):
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> It works fine when creating a tag from scratch, but not when editing an existing one
If I have 3 files and fill "Pop" as GENRE to the first, "Rock" to the second and "Country" to the third genre and then only activate "Show only user-defined genres", I see this auto-suggestions:
_(I only added some of your custom genres to my list)._
So please try it with these settings for your case:
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### Author:  [@promix](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/promix)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2025, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/updating-genre-issue/68458/5 "2025-05-10T13:37:33Z")
Thanks @LyricsLover ! Now it works!
You can close the topic.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/updating-genre-issue/68458/6 "2025-05-10T13:39:00Z")
You can close it by yourself, if you set one of my answers as "solution" 😉
Just click on the checkmark under the answer.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/updating-genre-issue/68458/7 "2025-06-09T13:39:37Z")
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