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Currently 4.6 has GENRES menu option going to display a long list of ALBUMS (using the ID3v2 tag name) and this is really not expected as the view as artists can be randomly shown in the list as its done alphabetically by ALBUM name. Can this be changed so that the ARTIST (or ALBUM ARTIST) tag is used as the view please because it makes more sense; its tidier too. When you go into GENRES, you often want to see the ARTISTS or AUTHORS and THEN see the list of work for them such as Albums or Books. Music and Music Video Libraries: ALBUMS are assigned to ARTIST in embedded meta data terms AudioBooks: BOOKS are assigned to AUTHORS. In this case the actual embedded meta data tags are still the same (BOOKS is ALBUMS and AUTHOR is ARTIST) If this change is completed, the result is that when you select a GENRE e.g. 'Rock', you'll then get a list of artists in that genre. When you find the artist you are interested in, and click it, you then get the albums. This is instead of the current alphabetical list of album names resulting in far bigger list to wade through if you have many albums (or books). In this current view, the artist work can be repeated multiple times if they released multiple albums and are all over the place because the sorting is on the album name. NOTE: MUSIC library did used to be like the proposed change until changed in 4.6.x!

Hello all, Disclaimer: This may be very specific to the way I have tagged my music. In my library, I differentiate between "film score" and "film soundtrack" in my genre metadata as a way of avoiding songs if I just want to hear the instrumental score. This means with releases that have a title song performed by an artist and the remainder of the album being instrumental, they'd be tagged respectively, soundtrack and score within the same album. It's worked great for me so far on various platforms like MusicBee and Plex but I've noticed Emby simplifies how it displays releases by genre. On Emby, if an album has both genre tags in it (caused by perhaps only one song being "film soundtrack") then the entire album appears in both genres. Request: Would it be possible for only the songs on the album with that specific genre tag to appear under that genre in the genre filter view? So it's filtering at a song level rather than an album one? Let me know if that needs explaining differently! I appreciate its quite a niche request. Look forward to your thoughts.