# Genre from MusicBrainz tags

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/genre-from-musicbrainz-tags/853>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [August 2, 2019, 12:32am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/genre-from-musicbrainz-tags/853 "2019-08-02T00:32:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![beetz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/beetz/32/280_2.png) [@beetz](https://discourse.beets.io/u/beetz)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 12:32am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/genre-from-musicbrainz-tags/853/1 "2019-08-02T00:32:39Z")

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The [LastGenre plugin page](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/lastgenre.html) states that “The MusicBrainz database [does not contain genre information](http://musicbrainz.org/doc/General_FAQ#Why_does_MusicBrainz_not_support_genre_information.3F)” and links to a section of the FAQ that has since been removed, because there is now a clean [API](https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Genre) that makes it easy to fetch genre tags from MusicBrainz.

How much work would it be to implement this in conjunction to the LastGenre plugin?

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**Author:** ![adrian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/adrian/32/4_2.png) [@adrian](https://discourse.beets.io/u/adrian)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 2:42am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/genre-from-musicbrainz-tags/853/2 "2019-08-02T02:42:01Z")

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Oh yeah, that is out of date now! Any chance you could open a PR to remove that statement?

It’s not clear to me how hard this would be, but probably not hard. We have an issue thread about it:

> <https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/3053>