I’m a DJ and new to mp3tag but would like to update my mp3s with genre ‘and’ style information from Discogs. Is this possible?

Do you want to have all 3 genres House, Deep House, Garage House as 1 value (separated with a comma) in the tag GENRE? Then you can use an action called "Format value" like this [image] Or do you want 3 GENRE tags with House Deep House Garage House Then you can use an action called "Format …

You can check if the built-in Discogs Websource Script delivers this information. This are the instructions how to use such Online Tag Sources . Mp3tag can only update your mp3 files with this information if they are available from online sources like Discogs and others. So please check, if genre a…

Thanks, will do. I’ve worked out how to change the GENRE output to STYLE by editing the discogs.inc file … which is halfway to what I’m after. I was hoping to change the output of the GENRE to GENRE + STYLE comma or / separated. But I’m guessing that might take some deeper JSON knowledge?

I assume, it will be much easier to adjust this in a second step. You can use the various Actions for this task. As soon as you get the needed values in one field, you can do whatever you want to this tag, like split it in the same tag, split it into multiple tags, add characters and so on. If yo…

I don’t think changing the inc file worked. But I’ve managed to get the Style information showing in the Genre column in the application by using the customise Collins function I.e. value note reads $meta_sep(style,\) and Field reads %genre% However, I can’t get this to write back to the files? Am …

[image] Cheekybeelzebub: customise Collins function If you customize columns, then you only make a specific value visible in Mp3tag. If you want to change a value inside a tag like GENRE, you have to use the mentioned Actions. Currently, you have a value House, Deep House, Garage House in…

Hi, sorry I think you’ve misunderstood. I just want House, Deep House, Garage House writing to the Genre tag. I thought because I’d managed to get the Genre column in the application showing the Style from Discogs that it would now write that to the Genre tag on each mp3 … but it doesn’t. Is ther…

I think the first option. I’ll give that a go and let you know how I go on. Thank you so much for your help. I just think it’ll be a massive time saver when Djing our building sets to be able to search by Style from Discogs rather than Genre as it’s more detailed.

You're welcome. Please check inside your DJ-Software which version (1 GENRE Tag or 3 GENRE Tags) better suits your needs. Would be nice to hear what kind of software this is and what you decided.

I use Serato but I’m not aware you can have 3 genre tags. Unless you use other redundant columns for that purpose?

I can't answer it for sure, because I don't use Serato. Please check it with your current version, just create one track with 1 GENRE Tag and another track with 3 GENRE tags and "import" it into Serato.

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