Userscript to transfer artist genre tags to releases

MusicBrainz
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Apologies if this has been discussed or already exists. It seems like it would but I’m not finding it.

I’d like to able to quickly add genre tags (or all tags preferably) from the artists page to a release. Obviously being cautious with when this gets used would be important, as not all artists stick to a single genre between releases. Maybe this is why it’s not a default option?

If it’s not available I may take this as an opportunity to improve my JavaScript skills. Always had an interest in learning to program, but have never stuck to it.

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This is awesome, thank you! It’s not really what I’m looking for, but it’ll do for now & could serve as a jumping off point for my own script.

NOTE
Not expecting these features, just taking this as a chance to hash out what I want. Footnotes used so y’all don’t have to endure all my silly little thoughts, lol. Plan to use this for my notes.

Why it doesn’t work for me:

  • [main reason] Grabs tags from external sources [1] [2]

  • Release group page not matched, only individual releases. [3]

  1. I’m looking to grab the tags directly from the artist’s page, as those are usually input by myself so I know they are correct. This is easy enough to remedy by downvoting incorrect tags (which I had to do during my test run) but I’d rather it use tags I’ve added or had an opportunity to vote on. ↩︎

  2. now that I think about it, an option to seed from my tags may be ideal. Though it’d need to be optional. ↩︎

  3. almost certainly something that I could easily customize using a @match tag, just a bit confused about why it’s not built-in. ↩︎

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I found tagging virtually unusable without being able to submit things across entities, so I (aka an LLM) created this userscript a while back. Let me know if you have any questions re. how it works.

And thanks to @chaban for submitting many improvements.

P.S. a ticket to implement something similar in MB natively is here: suggestions A, B

MusicBrainz Nuclear Tags

Quick buttons to submit and remember tag strings (ctrl+click to forget them). Submit and clear tags to selected sub-entities (artist > release group > release > recordings). Works!

Source Install Screenshot

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Saw this one on the userscript documentation page while I was looking for the other one shared. I’ll check it out, thank you. Should have considered tags and not genres specifically when looking into this. -_-

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