I've added some albums which are flooded with silly genres. Theses are named by the track titles.
I can't see where the come from, there's only only genre field in the tags of the files.
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FritzBox 7430, NUC 7 with ROCK … (well, I do have have metadata issues, but I couldn't finish the form after the third screenshot, so I tried it this way)
“genres from files” is enabled, because that’s what I want. I’ve disabled that option, the genres are disappearing now.
My workflow worked for years, I can’t tell, if a current release caused this issue. I’ve double-checked, that I only have one Genre in there. Well, my naming structure is a bit uncommonly. I use a nested Naming like “Heavy Metal: Deathcore” and then map it to Roon’s built-in Deathcore genre. I didn’t setup the colon as a separator.
The files are rippend with Fre:ac, tagged with Musicbrainz Picard, imported in Music on macOS and finally processed with beaTunes to add tone, bpm and so on. Then I mirror my whole library with the updated xml file to my ROCK-Machine. I haven’t changed that procedure, only the Apps get updates over the time.
I reenabled the tag import and the genres have returned. Not all albums are affected and I don’t unterstand why Roon imports all track titles as genres. That’s, why I’ve added the long screenshot with all metadata.
I believe it’s coming from the “Style” tag. Roon interprets the Style tag as a genre. I had this issue when I first starting using Roon in 2016. Once I deleted the info in the Style tag, the odd genres went away.
Thank you very much, @Saturn94. Good point and a direct hit. After deleting these tags, the unwanted genres are disappearing. So, I’ve to check, why Picard is adding them.
It stumped me and others when I was dealing with that issue. It was kind of a fluke that I discovered the Style tag and learned Roon sees it as a genre.