Organising with genres

Genres describe what the music actually is: soul, dub, post-punk, ambient. Unlike tags, they’re a single shared list for your whole account, so “soul” stays one genre rather than quietly becoming three.

Many records arrive with genres already filled in from the databases we match against. You’re free to change them.

Adding a genre to a record

Open the record, tap the pencil on Record Information and search the genre picker for the one you want, then tap Save.

The picker only offers genres that already exist, so if yours isn’t in the list, make it first on the Genres screen below. Same as tags: the list is made in one place and used everywhere.

Browsing and editing your genres

Open the menu and choose Genres. Every genre you use appears as a card with a stack of its covers and a count, and the stats at the top tell you how many genres you have and how many records carry one.

The + at the top right makes a new genre. Tap a genre to open it up and see everything in it. Edit records lets you add and remove records in bulk, the same way crates and tags work: tap + on a record to add it, or open Already added to take one out.

The kebab menu on each card has Edit to rename a genre and Delete to remove it. Renaming updates it everywhere at once, which is the point of keeping one list. Deleting a genre doesn’t touch the records that had it.

Finding records by genre

Open the filter panel from the bottom bar and filter by genre, on its own or alongside tags, locations and the rest. See Filtering and finding records.

Genres or tags?

Use a genre for what the music is, and a tag for anything else you want to say about a record: “Christmas”, “gift from Mum”, “needs a clean”. Genres stay a tidy shared vocabulary; tags can be as loose as you like. See Using tags to organise your collection.

You need a connection to create, rename or delete a genre. Putting genres on records works offline and syncs when you’re back. See How offline mode works.