Albums Flooded with Silly Genres in Tags (ref#7NUPDN)

[Tekl]

What’s happening?

· Something else

How can we help?

· I'm having trouble adding music to my library

Describe the issue

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.

Describe your network setup

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)

[Tekl]

Here’s a screenshot of the tags of one file.

[daniel]

Hi @Tekl,
Thanks for reaching out to let us know about this issue. Here are some possibilities that you can take a look at.

• See if localize genres is toggled in the album editor screen and just delete any weird genres you see there manually.
  

  

• Check if you have genres coming from tags in your import settings
  

  

• I would advise you to stop using tags to inform genres or look at cleaning up your tagging a little bit.

Where did you import this album from?

[Tekl]

Thanks Daniel,

1. Yes, localized genres is activated and I see in this screen, that alls genres come from the files.
   

   

2. “genres from files” is enabled, because that’s what I want. I’ve disabled that option, the genres are disappearing now.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

[Saturn94]

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.

PS - the info in Sub-Genre may be involved in this as well.

[Tekl]

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.

This case can be closed.

[Saturn94]

I’m glad it helped.

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.