# Why do so many of my albums don't get attributed a genre (and subgenre) (screenshot attached)

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**Created:** [January 11, 2026, 12:55pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/why-do-so-many-of-my-albums-dont-get-attributed-a-genre-and-subgenre-screenshot-attached/313373 "2026-01-11T12:55:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joris\_Latinne](https://community.roonlabs.com/letter_avatar/joris_latinne/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Joris\_Latinne](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/Joris_Latinne)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 12:55pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/why-do-so-many-of-my-albums-dont-get-attributed-a-genre-and-subgenre-screenshot-attached/313373/1 "2026-01-11T12:55:06Z")

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### Content you’re reporting an issue with

I have a lot of albums (almost 10%) that don’t get a genre (and subgenre) attached, while I would think that it’s pretty straight forward that they would get one. See screenshot for some of the many examples. This makes ROON challenging for me. I do have some genre tagging in there from the past, but I prefer ROON to handle this. In Library - Import Settings, everything is set on “Prefer Roon”, except for artwork, where it is 'Prefer Best".

What can I do to change this? Should I let Picard deliver some genres prior to moving these album to the library and also activate genres from file tags? Any setting? What else can I do? It’s not manageable long term to manually Edit 10% of my collection. And having ROON take (part) of the genres from file tags seems to diminish what I want ROON to do actually, not?

Second question if I may; how do I avoid that “compilations” don’t get a genre. Just one example: I have “Bartok Orchestral Works”. This was flagged as compilation without a genre, while basically it’s pretty clear this is at least main genre Classical, and imho also subgenre, Orchestral, no? The album was identified.

### Have you made any edits to this content in Roon?

I did try to re-identify some albums. Sometimes and sometimes not, this did result in them getting a genre attributed.

### Is the album identified in Roon?

Both cases exist, albums that were identified that don’t get a genre, and albums that did not get identified. The albums that did not get identified, I am however able to identify with Picard through MB acoustic ID.

### Is this content from local files, TIDAL, or Qobuz?

NAS

### Screenshot of import settings

### Description of the issue

 ![image](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/4X/1/3/1/13194774e0f2eb55e83b899e1ec3ab671bf94384.jpeg)  
 ![image](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/4X/1/0/4/104c2b8c6f780df0d5a8b267093da394221dfdd2.png)

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**Post date:** [January 25, 2026, 12:55pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/why-do-so-many-of-my-albums-dont-get-attributed-a-genre-and-subgenre-screenshot-attached/313373/2 "2026-01-25T12:55:07Z")

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