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Dpmusicbee

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Hi,

need help i have a sub genre other field and i like for musicbee to auto update this field with sub genre info. however i'm not sure if musicbee can, is there a plugin that would help me do this, if so what is it called please?

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The Additional Tagging and Reporting Tools plugin can do this, but proceed with caution until you're sure you understand what it's doing
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Dpmusicbee

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thanks for the reply. i looked under there but don't know what to set to have this happen any help please.

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I expect the plugin would only help if you had another field that you could derive the sub-genre from.
There isnt anything built into musicbee to retrieve sub-genres

Dpmusicbee

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Steven,

Thank You i have alot of manual inputting to do then. any chance this will be done?

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i like for musicbee to auto update this field with sub genre info.

In your mind, where would these sub-genres come from?

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Are you aware of MusicBee's genre category feature? It's sort of the opposite of what you want, but you might be able to use it for your purposes, putting your sub genres in the genre field and the parent genres as categories.
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putting your sub genres in the genre field and the parent genres as categories.
Sort of what I do with meta from discogs.
Genre goes to 'Genre Catergories'
Style goes to 'Genre'
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putting your sub genres in the genre field and the parent genres as categories.
Sort of what I do with meta from discogs.
Genre goes to 'Genre Catergories'
Style goes to 'Genre'

So do you have Genre Categories set up as a custom tag or is there already a tag for that?

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Genre categories are automatically generated based on the configuration in Tags (2) preferences
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