Hello,
I have spent the afternoon learning and configuring MusicBee. I think that I like this even better than my previous music managers. One issue keeps me from potentially switching over. The genre tags. I have a large collection of mp3's that I have tagged with custom genres. For example I use genre tags such as: Rock (Hard Rock), Rock (Heavy Metal), Folk (Norwegien), Folk (Irish), etc. The tags were encoded with the option of ID3v2 then ID3v1 using the programs Tag Tuner or MP3-tag.
Two other music managers (Media Monkey & Helium Music Manager) display my genre tags as I made them. MusicBee is not handling these so well. When I filter my mp3's by genre in the library explorer, MusicBee is displaying the tags in different ways. For example for Rock (Hard Rock) I am seeing two separate genres (Hard Rock), Rock. If I have ACDC tagged as Rock (Hard Rock), MusicBee is showing all my ACDC albums under both tags (Hard Rock) & Rock. It is doubling the genres. Also there are a few (very few) albums that MusicBee will show as Rock (Hard Rock). If I open the tag editor (right clicking on the album art), I will see the genre listed as Rock; (Hard Rock) instead of Rock (Hard Rock).
What can I do to make MusicBee filter the genres as I have them tagged? Is it possible to do without rewriting my tags? I already spent a huge amount of time tagging them this way, and am not going to retag them. It takes forever. Please show me step by step if it is possible. I really would like to use this as my default music manager.
Thank you for your time.