Only adding genre tag and changing nothing else

[Davedavson]

Hello,

I’m sorry if this has been asked before, I looked at almost every topic with genre in the title and didn’t find anything.

I want to scan/analyse my music and add ONLY genre tags (since my music is mostly electronic and there are a lot of single releases that often get added to some weird collections/wrong albums). Is this possible? I didnt find anything in the options, maybe with a taggerscript (I don’t really understand how to create those).

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

[kellnerd]

How to preserve all but one or two specific tags

I’m new to MusicBrainz Picard. I was wondering how one would go about preserving all tags (i.e. leaving previously blank tags blank) with the exception of the %album% and %tracknumber% tags. Would a script do this or would it require something else? Thanks in advance.

[Davedavson]

Thanks! will have a look!

[outsidecontext]

I’ll just add my usual comment on this

I would strongly recommend you to also write the musicbrainz_recordingid and musicbrainz_albumid to the files and not put them on the preserve list. Those tags in the files will enable you to easily retag your files with Picard without having to match them again to the correct album / track.