Why does 'album' field often have 'genre' values in it?

tbessie · Post by **tbessie** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 3:08 am

I noticed that a lot of my downloaded MP3s have values for 'genre' in the 'album' field.

Anyone know why this is? Is this some sort of standard, or an older way of keeping genre info in the file?

- Tim

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 5:50 am

Are these files all from one site?

tbessie · Post by **tbessie** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 1:04 pm

I used the feature of inferring tags from filenames and folders when I first started using MediaMonkey awhile ago, and I think it put them there. So it looks like my fault!

There may have been some others done like that, since some genres in "album" weren't my own classifications, but oops!

- Tim

Post by **Lowlander** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 2:22 pm

I turned inferring tags from filenames off a long time ago. It seems to get some weird results. You're better off just trying to get the info from that tags in the song.

If tags are messed up or miss info you can always use auto-tag from filename which you can configure yourself.

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 7:05 am

Yes, autotag from filename works much better than inferring the properties from the filename because you can specify the naming convention to get accurate results.

Why does 'album' field often have 'genre' values in it?

Why does 'album' field often have 'genre' values in it?

Ha! I think it may've been my fault