(Solved, I'm an idiot) Ghost genres in autocomplete.

[EffenBlue]

I'm using 3.1.6314 and when using autocomplete on genre, the drop-down menu shows ghost entries.
They don't appear in the column browser.

[Steven]

well MB isnt randomly making up genres. What it will be is the auto-complete list is based on all files MB knows about, even ones not in the library

[phred]

If you want to remove those phantom genres, do a custom search of the genre category using the exact spelling of the ones you don't want. When MB returns the tracks with those genres, delete or correct them. When there are no more files with the phantom tags, they won't show up in the auto-complete drop-down.

[EffenBlue]

well MB isnt randomly making up genres. What it will be is the auto-complete list is based on all files MB knows about, even ones not in the library

Sorry, I forgot to mention that. The ghost genres were valid before I changed them to the correct one. Usually in other autocompletes the no longer used values are removed, for some reason the ones in genre seem to stay.

If you want to remove those phantom genres, do a custom search of the genre category using the exact spelling of the ones you don't want. When MB returns the tracks with those genres, delete or correct them. When there are no more files with the phantom tags, they won't show up in the auto-complete drop-down.

I've tried that, they aren't showing up. Maybe there are some multi-genre files somewhere. I'll do some more re-scanning/searching to see if I can find the files.

[psychoadept]

Are they persisting past restarting MusicBee?  I find that auto-complete entries will hang around (and new ones won't necessarily show up) until I do a restart.

[EffenBlue]

Yes. I've restarted a few times but they seem to persist.

[phred]

I've tried that, they aren't showing up. Maybe there are some multi-genre files somewhere. I'll do some more re-scanning/searching to see if I can find the files.

In the case of (perhaps) multi-genre files, use the custom search criteria genre -contains- whatever.

[EffenBlue]

Okay, so I decided to search the MusicBeeLibrary.mbl file for the ghost genres and found one. It was located in a video file. I usually search "local node only" which is music so it never checked the video node. All the "ghost" genre's were in my video files. I.am.such.an.idot!
Thanks for your help Steven, phred and psychoadept. Sorry for wasting your time.