I have been experiencing a problem when I import my music folder, the 'Genre" field shows a single number (7 or 8) rather than the actual genre name. I only use MP3Tag for editing when I update my music folder. Looking at the genre field in my music app (iTunes or Winamp), the genre fields are cor…

If you see numbers in the genre field then it could be that another player or conversion tool wrote the ID3V1 genre codes instead of the real names - which it should be for ID3V2 tags. So I would investigate where those files with the numbers came from.

Yep, that 'splains it. Many thanks...

Shortly after you've reported your observation, another topic described a similar issue with the Windows version of Mp3tag. I've just released Mp3tag for Mac 1.5.1, which also makes sure that ID3v1 genre numbers are correctly translated for ID3v2.4 TCON frames.

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