All the Artist/Album tags on my MP3 collection are fine, but the Genres and Year tags are all horrendous.
For Genre, songs just seem to be all over the place. It classifies Iron Maiden is Alternative, Ozzy as Oldies, and Pink Floyd as Pop.
Year is even worse, because Amazon always seems to use the "remastered" year instead of the year the actual album came out. For example, it tags my Led Zeppelin albums as coming out in 1990+.
Is there any program that, assuming the artist and album is already correct, will automatically fix the Genre and Year tags?
Best Answer
If you are satisfied with the data in the MusicBrainz database, you could use MusicBrainz Picard (FLOSS and cross-platform) to retag your collection automatically.
Regarding your two examples:
I don’t know how widespread they are, but I use the metatags
date
andoriginaldate
to differentiate between actual release date and original release date.As
genre
is most often subjective, I don’t use this metatag at all.