Genre Tag on ID3

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Wolfgang Ritter

After reading of the few post about the GENRE TAG interpretation of the bluesound app and reader, i am confused.

I made several time a complete reorganisation of my music files (mp3, m4a, flac, wav) e.g. and made several time a reindex of the bluesound music index (the normal one and over the diagnostic page).

E.g. i have multiple files which have a genre tag with multiple entries (Jazz and Soul). I didn't find any description how bluesound will use this GENRE TAG and interpret the information from this TAG.
Does bluesound read all GENRE TAGs which could be exist according ID3 policy e.g. mp3 (GENRE='Jazz'), (GENRE='Soul') or does bluesound accept just one GENRE TAG and if that would be (is it the first, the last or just randomly). When just one is allowed, can der be more than one genre be included? If yes, how will they be sperated? ID3 shows to possiblities 1. Jazz; Soul and the 2. Jazz\\Soul.

At the moment is a kind of lottery what happens. I have in the bluesound genre list entries as "Jazz" and "Soul" as single entries (for me correct) but i have also entries as "Jazz; Soul" instead correctly splitted.
How to i have to set my genre correct? And when this should be a bug, when will it be solved?

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    Mark T.
    Sr. Support Crew Member

    Hi Wolfgang,

    This may help answer your feedback. https://support1.bluesound.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/19861405219863/comments/19965728188183


  • Wolfgang Ritter

    Sorry, I sent an answer perhaps not so friendly. But it doesn't appear is this chat. Does it mean, if someone write not so popular text, it will be deleted.

    Just for you in friendly way. I don't understand that nobody is able to explain how a software works. If your software reads an ID3 Tag in this case genres with the tag called "TCON" you are not able to explain if your software Interprets the content "Jazz; Soul" as single content or if your software will split the content into two entries as "Jazz" and "Soul". And if the software splits the content if the devider is "; " or another one.

    What is so complicated on such an question?

    Regards

     

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  • Dan Gravell

    Maybe this has changed, but back the last time I checked (admittedly in 2018) multiple genres were not supported, and so the genre was taken verbatim: https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2018/02/14/maildump-bluesound/

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