Delete Album Genre

[ChrisLoh 0]

Hi,

(DAMN - wrong forum and no idea how to move or delete it. SORRY!!!)

I have sorted out many genres in my collection. I did this with a tagging tool for every single song. So all my songs are perfectly tagged now. I refreshed the metadata in Emby, but there are still far too many genres.

So I inspected some of the genres, I expected to disappear. These genres are associated with albums, not with single songs. I don't know the origin of thes "album genres", and of course I can not edit the tags of an album externally. Is ther a way to get rid of all "album genres"?

Thank you,

Pete

 

Edited March 6 by ChrisLoh
wrong forum

[user24 329]

Hi, if you have tried Scan Library Files and Refresh Metadata and the rogue genres remain, then you could perhaps try removing them using the Metadata Editor of the individual albums. You could do this one-by-one or bulk remove all selected bad genres from one album at a time, as per image below:

I couldn't find a way to potentially bulk remove a selection of Genres from a library via the music Genres page though. Someone else may know a more efficient way???

If the rogue genres still appear after rescanning/refreshing, then you may need to investigate further? Cheers!

[ChrisLoh 0]

Hi,

thank you. I have tried Scan Library Files and Refresh Metadata, but I have still unwanted genres in my albums (not single tracks). This are hundreds of albums, so I can't delete them manually. Is there any way to delete all album genres? And if there is no way: would it help to recreate the database?

 

[user24 329]

You could try the Genre Cleaner plugin? You may need to install this from the Plugin Catalog.

I don't use it myself - but could be worth trying?

Edited March 8 by user24

[ChrisLoh 0]

Thank you - GenreCleaner did the job. It couldn't clean all unwanted genres (don't know why). But there were so less at the end, I could do it manually.

 

[Luke 42156]

The genres of an album are a combination of all of the genres of the songs on the album.

So if you just make sure the genres on the songs are correct, then the album genres will take care of themselves.