How to retrieve good quality genre tags using Picard

[Mr. Trev]

Just wanted to jump in and say thanks for keeping this updated.

Been a while since I last updated your scripts myself - all the "push" stuff at the end was new to me. I guess I should be paying more attention

Cheers

[hiccup]

Just wanted to jump in and say thanks for keeping this updated.

Been a while since I last updated your scripts myself - all the "push" stuff at the end was new to me. I guess I should be paying more attention

You're welcome.
For that improvement, I did create an 'updated' post.
As I will for most changes that entail more than just adding genres.

[hiccup]

updated

This one may be important.

I have reverted something that a while ago I thought to be a good idea, but I now realise that it can/will also cause issues.

It's about the script replacing all spaces with non-breaking spaces.
The idea was that e.g. something like 'Blues rock' would not get split up to a new line like:
Blues
rock

But I now realise that that can cause issues when doing searches, filtering, using Tag Hierarchy templates etc. because those will be matching spaces, and not non-breaking spaces.

So, I have removed this non-breaking space replacing.
It's still a good idea, but it should be done at the display stages, not at the tag writing stage.

If you have been tagging your music using this script, I apologise for this issue.
Luckily it shouldn't be too difficult to correct your existing genre tags that contain these non-breaking spaces:

- select all your files
- Tools > Tagging Tools > Search and Replace
- 'search for':

Code

- in field: genre
- replace with: [Space]

Let me know if this causes any issues.

[Roper]

I don't know if I'm doing something wrong but the unset tags script makes the release tile on the top right pane invisible and all the tracks look like "00", the bottom pane is fine, though, it still finds the tracks and they have their tags set correctly as far as I'm aware, the problem seems to be just on the top right pane. I've reset Picard twice to check and it really only happens once I add and enable this script. I've used it before on a previous Picard version on MacOS and it worked fine. But on this up to date version of Picard on Windows, it's giving me trouble.

[hiccup]

I don't know if I'm doing something wrong but the unset tags script makes the release tile on the top right pane invisible and all the tracks look…

Welcome to the forum Roper

I'm not sure if it has always been the case, but indeed Picard won't display tags there that have been unset in a script.
But the scripts are working correctly still, correct?

What you could do if it bothers you is removing tags such as 'album' 'artist' 'title' from the unset script, and then add them to your 'preserve tags' list.
I'm pretty sure they will then show up.