Bigmack3000 84 Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 For sorting purposes, if an album or song is missing it's own genre tag, auto-assign the genre of the artist it's under. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8281 Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 And if the Artist has multiple Genre? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmack3000 84 Posted June 28, 2021 Author Share Posted June 28, 2021 Take the first listed genre. This would act more of a net, so that every album has at least one listed genre to be sorted into when you click the "Genres" tab. Or the flipside of this is to add a sort box under the "Genres" tab that hold all the unlisted albums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14911 Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Artists don't have genres. They are inferred from their albums. So this is a bit of circular logic I believe... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathsquirrel 741 Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 This can't work as EBR said. The genres come from tags in tracks. The genres shown for an album are the genres present in tracks on that album. The genres shown for an artist are the genres tagged in tracks by that artist. If you have an album with no genres just pop it open in a tag editor like MP3Tag and add some, or run it through an automatic tagging tool like Picard. If you do the latter you can enjoy the added entertainment of learning about some truly ridiculous genres and likely come to the conclusion that musicbrainz is curated by the questionably literate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmack3000 84 Posted June 28, 2021 Author Share Posted June 28, 2021 oh, that's interesting. I didn't know the genres were fed upwards. On musicbrainz the artist pages do list genres on them. Emby doesn't scrape any of that particular data? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Luke 37060 Posted June 28, 2021 Solution Share Posted June 28, 2021 For music this is actually bottom-up inheritance rather than top-down like with other kinds of media. Typically you will have this data on the tracks, and therefore the albums and artists gets the genres from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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