Edit Genres
under review
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Steve
Currently, editing is possible when navigating by Artist or by Album:
Artists → Select Artist → Select Album → Edit (option to edit that particular album)
Albums → Select Album → Edit (option to edit that particular album)
However, the same workflow is not available when navigating by Genres. At the moment, you can view a lineup of genres, but you cannot select and edit genres directly.
It would be very helpful to enable bulk editing by genre. For example:
I have a genre labeled “Album Rock; Pop/Rock” that contains 4 albums. If I want to rename this to just “Pop/Rock”, I currently have to edit each album one by one.
I also have a genre labeled “Album Rock; Alternative Pop/Rock; Alternative/Indie Rock; Art Rock; College Rock; Contemporary Pop/Rock; Pop/Rock; Prog-Rock” that contains a single album. There is no way to group this album with the previous 4 and rename them all at once.
Being able to select one or multiple genres and apply edits in bulk would make the workflow much more efficient. I’ve included a video to illustrate what I mean.
Team Aurender
Hi Steve,
Thanks a lot for the detailed suggestion — and the video was especially helpful in showing exactly what you meant. Being able to edit tags in bulk would definitely make things much smoother inside Conductor!
We checked on this internally, and it’s not something we can add during the current closed beta. Sorry we can’t move quicker here. That said, even after the beta ends and the public release goes out, we’ll keep refining the feature, and this is a request we’ll push up in priority to explore more seriously.
We’ll keep you posted along the way. Thanks again for taking the time to share such valuable input — it really helps. Looking forward to hearing more of your ideas as you keep testing. :)
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Steve
Team Aurender Alternative thought. Proposal: Auto-split multi-value Genre strings into individual Genre tags
If many albums in a library have multiple genres stored in a single string separated by semicolons, e.g.:
Album Rock; Pop/Rock
Album Rock; Alternative Pop/Rock; Alternative/Indie Rock; Art Rock; College Rock; Contemporary Pop/Rock; Pop/Rock; Prog-Rock
Today these are treated as one long genre value, which prevents reliable genre search/browse and makes cleanup tedious.
Suggestion
Add support for parsing the semicolon (;) as a genre delimiter and auto-generating individual genre tags from a single multi-value string.
Example:
Album Rock; Pop/Rock → Album Rock, Pop/Rock
Album Rock; … ; Prog-Rock → Album Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Art Rock, College Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock, Prog-Rock
Expected behavior
On Scan for newly added files or Clean Scan (or via a one-time migration tool), split the existing Genre field on ;, trim whitespace, and de-duplicate.
Store/index these as separate genre tags per album.
Genre search/browse should return any album that contains the selected tag (logical OR across tags).
Preserve the original display if desired, but base filtering on the normalized tag set.
Optional niceties (nice-to-have, not blocking)
A one-click migration: “Split multi-value Genre strings by ;” with a preview that shows counts and lets me undo.
Support , as an additional delimiter (configurable), but ; alone would already solve most cases.
Basic normalization (trim, collapse multiple spaces) and duplicate handling.
Later: a lightweight rename/merge tag action (e.g., rename Album Rock → Pop/Rock across the library).
Why this helps
Delivers the main value of “bulk edit by Genre” without a new bulk-edit UI: once tags are split, search/browse works as users expect.
Reduces repeated manual edits and makes large libraries far more manageable.
Team Aurender
under review