# Want to empty the Genre drop-down list
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/want-to-empty-the-genre-drop-down-list/15694
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 28, 2014, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/want-to-empty-the-genre-drop-down-list/15694 "2014-04-28T16:57:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@AMJF](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AMJF)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2014, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/want-to-empty-the-genre-drop-down-list/15694/1 "2014-04-28T16:57:21Z")
I have my MP3 library set up in such a way that only a single case is used for each field, like lower-case for Albums and Titles, and upper-case for Artists and Composers. This seems odd, but I hate it when MP3 albums never consistently use case correctly, and it always varies - at least this way I don't have to worry about that aspect of the ID3v2 tags.
Case-changing is quite easy to implement with Case Conversion and the Actions subsystem, but I wish that I could stop the Genre tag from continuously capitalising the first letter (from the drop-down list), as I use lower-case for that field.
Is there a way to empty that drop-down list and put in your own genres, in whatever case you like?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/want-to-empty-the-genre-drop-down-list/15694/2 "2014-04-28T17:10:39Z")
> [@AMJF](#):
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> Is there a way to empty that drop-down list and put in your own genres, in whatever case you like?
The names for genre are defined for v1 tags where they are represented by one byte
(see [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste\_der\_ID3v1-Genres)](http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_ID3v1-Genres)) - so any player relying on these tags will write its genre the way it likes.
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/want-to-empty-the-genre-drop-down-list/15694/3 "2014-04-28T17:11:41Z")
> [@AMJF](#):
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> ... I wish that I could stop the Genre tag from continuously capitalising the first letter (from the drop-down list), as I use lower-case for that field.
> Is there a way to empty that drop-down list and put in your own genres, in whatever case you like?
See Dialog "Mp3tag Options/Genres".
Activate "Show only user-defined genres".
Create your own user-defined genre names, press the button "New".
DD.20140428.2111.CEST
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### Author:  [@AMJF](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AMJF)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/want-to-empty-the-genre-drop-down-list/15694/4 "2014-04-28T17:18:27Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> The names for genre are defined for v1 tags where they are represented by one byte
> (see [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste\_der\_ID3v1-Genres)](http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_ID3v1-Genres)) - so any player relying on these tags will write its genre the way it likes.
The first thing I do when I get new MP3s is to strip out all the ID3v1 tags, as I believe that no MP3 player worth it's salt would use only those.
I'm assuming that "Genre" in ID3v2.3-4 is a text string?
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### Author:  [@AMJF](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AMJF)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/want-to-empty-the-genre-drop-down-list/15694/5 "2014-04-28T17:21:01Z")
> [@DetlevD](#):
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> See Dialog "Mp3tag Options/Genres".
> Activate "Show only user-defined genres".
> Create your own user-defined genre names, press the button "New".
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> DD.20140428.2111.CEST
Yes, just what I was looking for. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/want-to-empty-the-genre-drop-down-list/15694/6 "2026-02-09T12:25:01Z")