# Musicbrainz: genres yes, but not updating

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/musicbrainz-genres-yes-but-not-updating/1922>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [November 3, 2021, 12:33am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/musicbrainz-genres-yes-but-not-updating/1922 "2021-11-03T00:33:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![senorsmartypants](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/senorsmartypants/32/589_2.png) [@senorsmartypants](https://discourse.beets.io/u/senorsmartypants)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2021, 12:33am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/musicbrainz-genres-yes-but-not-updating/1922/1 "2021-11-03T00:33:09Z")

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Newbie here: I imported many albums and it was good. Then I discovered the following option

[https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/config.html#genres](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/config.html#genres)

I enabled it in my config like this.

```auto
musicbrainz:
    genres: yes

```

and then I would import an album again to update the genres

`beet import -w -L <artist> <album>`

But when I view the files in Picard, no updates to genres. (And Picard’s MB genres are pulling in new ones). The release doesn’t have genres, but the release group does. It looks like beets parses both of them.

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/beets/original/1X/26f73cd8b6715d783a8d584f95853f806cf77fd4.png)

Should I be running a different command?

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**Author:** ![trolley](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/trolley/32/431_2.png) [@trolley](https://discourse.beets.io/u/trolley)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2021, 1:06am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/musicbrainz-genres-yes-but-not-updating/1922/2 "2021-11-03T01:06:14Z")

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To the best of my knowledge this doesn’t work yet because the MusicBrainz library Beets uses doesn’t support it yet. See [Add genre support using musicbrainz tags. by aereaux · Pull Request #3781 · beetbox/beets · GitHub](https://github.com/beetbox/beets/pull/3781)

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**Author:** ![trolley](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/trolley/32/431_2.png) [@trolley](https://discourse.beets.io/u/trolley)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2021, 1:12am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/musicbrainz-genres-yes-but-not-updating/1922/3 "2021-11-03T01:12:32Z")

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This makes me wonder, is [GitHub - alastair/python-musicbrainzngs: Python bindings for Musicbrainz' NGS webservice](https://github.com/alastair/python-musicbrainzngs) abandonware? The last commit was in Aug. 2020.