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Support => Questions => Topic started by: avididid on May 24, 2021, 08:59:28 PM
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What are the average as to how many genres you assign to each album I'm trying to keep it at 1 per album but sometimes 2? Just trying to see how others tag their metadata!! Tks, Newbie David
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I've had as many as three. Or four.
Someone like Janis Joplin for instance. Rock, Blues, R&B.
One of the above or all of the above.
Oh, and if it's a bootleg live album I'd add 'bootleg' as a fourth genre. You can argue if bootleg is a genre or not, but like many things in music, it's a person interpretation and I've made it a genre.
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I'm using MusicBrainz' Picard and some tweaked plugins and scripts to retrieve and write genres.
I have set it to write a maximum of 20 genres.
But in reality, on average it will result in something between 2 and 6 genres being assigned.
It resulting in more than 10 is very rare.
I would delete the ones I find to be completely wrong or useless, but the results are pretty good actually, and I am not convinced it's worth my time and effort to do a lot of manual editing.
And when I feel compelled to do so, I don't edit my files, but I edit the release at MusicBrainz.
So at a next synkgronization my files get updated accordingly. (and hopefully other MusicBrainz/Picard/MusicBee users also benefit)
And, as a full disclosure: I am not allowing any software to touch/write/edit my 'genre' tag.
I have a custom tag 'genre retrieved' that gets populated like this.
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Thank you for the input!! DN