Slash (solidus) character in genre

[Alienshore_Rick 0]

I'm new to Emby and loving what I'm seeing so far. The only real issue I'm having is with my genre items. Because pop and rock music are so intertwined, Ive been using "Pop/Rock" for both in my previous server software. But Emby takes Pop/Rock and reads it as two separate genres, "Pop" and "Rock" which is not what I want! I *do not* want Emby to reach the Slash (solidus) character as a delimiter.

Is there any way I can get it to read "Pop/Rock" as a single genre...or am I going to have to change it in all of my files to get what I want?

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[user24 313]

Hi, I don't know if it is in any way possible using the standard keyboard "/", someone from Emby will need to answer that for you, BUT I have found one workaround way that may achieve what you want...

• Pop/Rock (standard keyboard "/") as embedded metadata Genre tag, imports as two tags: Pop, Rock (as you have found).
• Pop∕Rock (math symbol "∕") will import as one tag: Pop∕Rock (it possibly looks better with spaces though: Pop ∕ Rock).

Here is how it looks in Emby with a small test:

The math symbol can be accessed from the emoji menu (e.g. Windows key +  . on Windows PC).

You can also replace the "Pop/Rock" genre tag with "Pop ∕ Rock" as a bulk edit in Mp3tag:

• Actions>Actions(Quick)>Replace>Field:>Original:>Replace with:

It can also be a bit of messing around with deleting existing Genres in Emby and Refreshing Metadata to get the changes to take effect, but only you can assess if it's worth the time and effort for you. With most things like this - once you figure out the process, it becomes easy to repeat.

Someone else may know an easier way??? Cheers!

[Luke 42077]

Yea the problem is that / is also treated as a separator.