# Any way to add proper genres to the mp3s?

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/any-way-to-add-proper-genres-to-the-mp3s/455321
**Category:** MusicBrainz Picard
**Created:** [December 15, 2019, 11:39pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/any-way-to-add-proper-genres-to-the-mp3s/455321 "2019-12-15T23:39:30Z")
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### Author: ![outsidecontext](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/outsidecontext/32/90_2.png) [@outsidecontext](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/outsidecontext)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2019, 7:19am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/any-way-to-add-proper-genres-to-the-mp3s/455321/2 "2019-12-16T07:19:00Z")

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> [@pitpfypirbrain](#):
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> Is there any way to add genres automatically right now?

Yes, but I’m a bit puzzled by this question because you already found out about the genre plugins.

One thing you should be aware of is that you should always only enable one genre plugin or the builtin genre support at a time. Behavior when enabling multiple genre sources is mostly undefined and you will get the genres from one source only (but won’t be sure which one).

Regarding which genre to use my following advice still is true (except that the mentioned bug for MusicBrainz genres of course is fixed now):

> [@Picard 2.x and genres. Good practices? Advice on plugins?](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/picard-2-x-and-genres-good-practices-advice-on-plugins/416427/4):
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> It’s a new feature, but not an empty data set. MusicBrainz’ genre support is basically a server side whitelist over the folksonomy tags feature that has been around for years, so there is plenty of data already. The reason this is currently not working reliable is that it currently fetches only genres / folksonomy tags on the release level due to a server side bug. See [Folksonomy tags no longer work as of v2.0.0](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/folksonomy-tags-no-longer-work-as-of-v2-0-0/390825) for details. The difference is that they use different data sources. The built-i…

> [@pitpfypirbrain](#):
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> The genres on the musicbrainz website seem to be good but somehow picard doesn’t fetch them?

You need to enable fetching genres in Options \> Metadata \> Genres.

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