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Feature: Ability to retain custom genres / styles

Open brendan-pike opened this issue 2 years ago • 5 comments

99% of the time I'm happy to overwrite all existing tags with discogs.com. But there are times where I do use some custom tags only meaningful to me. In these situations it would be nice if there was a retain list. Example: Let's say in my genre retain list I have "wild west" among others. Then a certain track has these existing tags in genre "rock; wild west". And discogs has this track listed as only "classic rock". With this feature I would expect the track genre to be updated to now have "classic rock; wild west" thus retaining my custom tags.

brendan-pike avatar Apr 13 '22 02:04 brendan-pike

For genres and styles there is an option in advanced settings - Merge Genres which should retain your original genres and styles. Reopen or comment if this doesnt work as intended or if you have more issues. Thanks

Marekkon5 avatar Apr 13 '22 05:04 Marekkon5

Yes I realise that, however 99% of the time I actually prefer my genres to be changed (corrected). There is only a few specific tags I would care to protect.

brendan-pike avatar Apr 13 '22 05:04 brendan-pike

Well in that case it would require a manual whitelist. Or now you can just clean your tags later in QT.

However this seems kinda very specific and/or tools like Mp3Tag would do that. So I'll not be adding it this release and discuss it later.

Marekkon5 avatar Apr 13 '22 05:04 Marekkon5

Yes I understand its pretty niche. I didn't realise mp3tagger could do this, however I'm a linux user so its not supported, unless its wine friendly perhaps.

brendan-pike avatar Apr 13 '22 06:04 brendan-pike

Mp3Tag works fine in wine, also on Linux PuddleTag exists, although I've never used it.

Marekkon5 avatar Apr 13 '22 08:04 Marekkon5