New strange genres after upgrade 4.1 [#11872]

[Richard Leonard]

I have just upgraded my MM Gold from v 4.0.7.1511 to v 4.1.0.1692 (PC running under Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit).

In my media tree under the Genre folder I see that 8 genres appear which are unknown to me and were not present before the upgrade. All of them are empty (no tracks listed), so I am assuming it not to be the case that somehow there might have been strange entries lurking in the metadata of some of my tracks which would have induced v 4.1 to create these strange new genres on that basis.

Has any one experienced this issue?

I have tried right-clicking on the unwanted genres and clicking on remove, but this does not delete them from the Genre Folder, and I have not been able to find a way to delete them?

Does any one know how to delete such unwanted empty genres from the Genre Folder?

Thanks for any help.

Richard

[Lowlander]

I suggest running File > Maintain Library with complete optimization enabled. It may fix the problem.

[mackay_tt]

I am experiencing the same problem after the upgrade to 4.1. Empty Genres persist and cannot be deleted, even after running a complete optimization.

I, too, would like to know how to delete the empty entries in the genres list.

[nohitter151]

Remove Unused Genres/Classification 1.2.1 (2008-02-18)

[Richard Leonard]

Thanks for you reply Lowlander.

I'm not sure, but I think I did run a complete optimization before I made my original post.

Even so, I have now run it again and it doesn't resolve the problem.

Richard

[Richard Leonard]

OK, thanks nohitter151.

I failed to pay attention to your post in this thread, but now having gone to the link you gave I followed through: downloaded the script, installed and ran it.

It easily took care of the empty genres (even listed them).

They are now gone.

Thanks and best regards,
Richard

[mackay_tt]

nohitter151 linked script worked for me as well.
Thank you.

[Peke]

Anyone experience this issue should be informed that we fixed it in 1693 release.