[Abcde-users] genre not populating with musicbrainz

[Steve McIntyre]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 10:58:45AM -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I recently switched to using musicbrainz for the data lookup with abcde and
>everything works correctly, except
>I've noticed on all the cds I've tested that "genre" is never filled in.  
>
>Has anyone else noticed this?  I'm wondering if there is a bug somewhere.

It's never had any code in the Musicbrainz query setup to grab or set
the genre. AFAIK it's not a reliable thing in Musicbrainz data.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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