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Re: Random genre for certain tracks

by Lowlander » Mon Dec 29, 2025 4:28 pm

Hard to say, may have been done by another software and used ID3 genre id instead of name.

Re: Random genre for certain tracks

by muralin » Mon Dec 29, 2025 11:23 am

Thanks. Your recommendation fixed the issues. But, I am curious how these "fake" genres got created.

Re: Random genre for certain tracks

by Lowlander » Mon Dec 29, 2025 10:25 am

You can try Tools > Edit tags > Update tags on those files.

Random genre for certain tracks

by muralin » Mon Dec 29, 2025 9:55 am

App version: 2004.2
OS: Windows 11 with all updates

I have about 29K tracks in my library. For about 100 tracks, when I view the file properties in Windows File Manager, the genre is different. I see the following genres: 32, 0, (0), 8, (8). All the tracks within each of these genres are of the same type. e.g. All the files under genre 32 are Classical. When I view the track detail in MM, they all look fine with correct genre. See attached screenshots.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3x6ctfjw ... 7w8vt&dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jf5jl5of ... 3k1xy&dl=0

I then edited the genre in MM to something different and then changed it back to the original genre and the problem associated with that file disappeared. Seems like I need to fix all the other 100+ files.

Need your guidance on how I can resolve this. Thanks.

Murali

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