I am doing a large cleanup of the genre tags in my collection. The first step was to purge existing genre tags, removing all GENRE tags from all files using metaflac.
Having resynced Symfonium, I still see some genres listed; with tracks that I know have no GENRE tags listed against these genres.
How can I ensure that the only genres shown in the app are ones embedded in tracks with GENRE tags?
Logs:
Upload description: Ewan - genre tags issue
Additional information:
The screenshot shows that the app is listing a genre called '80 and that 12 tracks have this genre. None of these tracks have a GENRE tag.
The provider is Google Drive, but the same issue occurs with an SMB share from my NAS drive - are these not simply file-based providers? I have considered that this may well be a caching issue, but I don’t know where any information could be cached other than in the app?
The tool I am using for tag management is the command line metaflac tool, which I consider is a proper tool for both editing and listing FLAC tags: running a metaflac --show-all-tags command on the relevant FLAC files shows that they contain no GENRE tags, nor any other tag with the value '80 . I have also checked other tracks being listed with other genres where the files do not contain GENRE tags.
Is GENRE the only tag Symfonium uses to build the genre list?
If the date does not change use clear tag cache on the provider
Ah, wait - I have just found the menu for clearing tag cache… This is now triggering a full resync, which will take about a day to complete (the provider being Google, I have seen your comments on the Ness of their API).
The app did appear to do a full resync due to the extent of the recent file changes, but I will wait for the results of this sync.
That is good to know - many but not all of my files are ripped from CD, I guess the ripping tools could have been embedding ID3v2 tags. If so, I’ll want to clean these out…
