# Genre Generator Action
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-generator-action/64500
**Category:** Mac
**Created:** [April 24, 2024, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-generator-action/64500 "2024-04-24T18:53:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@djquartz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djquartz)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-generator-action/64500/1 "2024-04-24T18:53:33Z")
I have another problem to solve to speed up track processing.
The pool use doesn't fill in their genre tags and it's the last step I do which waste's a lot of time.
I have reached out already and they have decided to let the DJ's fill that information in.
How could I go about automating this in mp3tag, so it could check the music databases and adding in the genres automatically?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-generator-action/64500/2 "2024-04-24T19:00:32Z")
As you mention "action" in the thread title:
The action to set anything into GENRE is "Format tag field" - or you select the files that should get the same genre, enter the genre in the tag panel and save the modification.
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### Author:  [@djquartz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djquartz)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-generator-action/64500/3 "2024-04-24T19:02:20Z")
That's not what I'm trying to do.
Selecting and adding genres manually are not a problem.
I'm talking about having mp3tag check the artist and song title against a supported music database then automatically populating them.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-generator-action/64500/4 "2024-04-24T19:04:16Z")
So far the only way to get external information is the use of web source scripts.
AFAIK you can set which fields should be filled as soon as you have found a match with the help of the web source script.
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### Author:  [@djquartz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djquartz)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-generator-action/64500/5 "2024-04-24T19:16:09Z")
Taking a peek at this, [Discogs Authorization – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/tag-sources/discogs-auth/)
and this, [Importing Tags from Online Tag Sources – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/tag-sources/import/)
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### Author:  [@djquartz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djquartz)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 10:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-generator-action/64500/6 "2024-04-24T22:48:20Z")
Yeah definitely want to build an action for this.
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### Author:  [@djquartz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djquartz)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-generator-action/64500/7 "2024-04-24T23:10:38Z")
I understand how to build the action, but can you pull from a tag source for an action such as genre?
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### Author:  [@djquartz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djquartz)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2024, 2:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-generator-action/64500/8 "2024-04-25T02:05:50Z")
I'm putting this on hold because I found a tool that does exactly this via drag and drop.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2024, 4:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-generator-action/64500/9 "2024-04-25T04:55:43Z")
> [@djquartz](#):
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> but can you pull from a tag source for an action such as genre?
No.
Web sources cannot be called via actions.
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### Author:  [@djquartz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djquartz)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2024, 5:13am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-generator-action/64500/10 "2024-04-25T05:13:41Z")
No problem I found a tool that solves the problem.
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### Author:  [@djquartz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djquartz)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-generator-action/64500/11 "2024-06-01T19:03:18Z")
I will say that even though I have a tool to do this now. It stil would be nicer built into mp3tag.