Ways of adding Genre tag

[esdee]

I used to rely on plugins to add Genre tag to my files, namely either lastfm/lastfmplus and wikidata. Neither of those 2 currently function properly with Picard 2.0, so I would like to ask if there is any other way of getting Genre tags?

Additionally, is it possible to add Genre according to the artist genre on musicbrainz? I know there is an option for it (I think) in Picard, but it doesn’t seem to be working for me.

[outsidecontext]

@esdee

I used to rely on plugins to add Genre tag to my files, namely either lastfm/lastfmplus and wikidata.

I honestly lost track on the status of the last.fm plugins, but wikidata is supposed to work. What does not work?

@esdee

Additionally, is it possible to add Genre according to the artist genre on musicbrainz? I know there is an option for it (I think) in Picard, but it doesn’t seem to be working for me.

Yes, there is an options for this (Options > Metadata > Folksonomy Tags > “Fall back on album’s artists tags…”, but it currently does not work due to some server side inconsistency:

Folksonomy tags no longer work as of v2.0.0

I use the Folksonomy tags metadata feature to add genres by choosing the options “Only use my tags”, “Fall back on album’s artist tags…”, and setting the maximum number of tags to 1. Since upgrading to Picard 2.0.0 this no longer works, so newly tagged files have no genre. Has anyone else see this?

[esdee]

@outsidecontext

I honestly lost track on the status of the last.fm plugins, but wikidata is supposed to work. What does not work?

Some albums just cause Picard to hang after lookup while loading the information. I think there migh be some info here: This should fix issue 141 by dns53 · Pull Request #145 · metabrainz/picard-plugins · GitHub