Music Genres

[tontano]

Hi all;
I have thousands of tracks that when I ran them through a tagging software, it overwrote all the genres.
Not sure how that happened, and being forgetful, forgot to do a backup first, I am wondering if there is any platform that can scan the music and assign the correct genres.
Does something exist? Do you guys know of anything?
Thanks in advance

[pete]

An Mp3 tag software with a link to an online database will bulk rename the tracks and add genres etc.
There are plenty to find from a quick search online.
Just make sure to back them up somewhere if the renaming goes wrong. again.

[JosepZ]

Hi all;
I have thousands of tracks that when I ran them through a tagging software, it overwrote all the genres.
Not sure how that happened, and being forgetful, forgot to do a backup first, I am wondering if there is any platform that can scan the music and assign the correct genres.
Does something exist? Do you guys know of anything?
Thanks in advance

Try this:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EasyTAG

EDIT: Hope you're not a Mac user...

[tontano]

Sorry but unfortunately I am a MAC user.

[DJ Bobcat]

Sorry but unfortunately I am a MAC user.

Nothing wrong with using a Mac, but finding free utilities is a little more difficult than with Windows. You might look into an app called TuneUp (40 per year or $50 lifetime subscription) by TuneUp Media. A second choice might be Equinux's SongGenie 2 for $30.

Of course, you can use a Windows machine to fix the tags, either by making a copy of your music library, or sharing the library on your Mac across your home network. I have my iMac and Linux computers on my home network and share files among all my computers. It works quite nicely, because I can choose the application that works best for the task at hand, regardless of OS.

[JosepZ]

Sorry but unfortunately I am a MAC user.

Just like Bobcat said, that's fine and macOS is a better OS than Windows, but unfortunately finding free and open source apps is not as easy, probably because the platform is not as popular among general computer users. And it's a pity, because most free software is developed in Linux and BSD systems, and both are Unix-based just like macOS, which makes them easier to port to macOS than it is to Windows. Since OSX, macOS is based on Darwin, which itself borrows heavily from FreeBSD, a free Unix-based OS that has a lot in common with Linux.

Anyway, many free apps end up getting ported to macOS.
Check these ones out, both are available for macOS:

https://picard.musicbrainz.org/
http://www.jthink.net/jaikoz/