# Duplicate local music genres

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/duplicate-local-music-genres/796362>\
**Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\
**Tags:** server-mac\
**Created:** [June 9, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/duplicate-local-music-genres/796362 "2022-06-09T15:36:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![DesertFly](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/desertfly/32/12695_2.png) [@DesertFly](https://forums.plex.tv/u/DesertFly)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/duplicate-local-music-genres/796362/1 "2022-06-09T15:36:51Z")

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Server Version#: 1.27.0.5889

I recently noticed I have duplicate genre on all my genres, so basically all shows twice.

I use “Prefer embedded tags” and “Genres to embedded tags”

I’m not sure when this started it hasen’t been like all the time, I just with this version deleted the library and scanned again still duplicate music genres.

![Screenshot 2022-06-09 at 17.23.18](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/3/d/e/3de95f65e5ad2537e8e81b8170e97462e041ade0.png)

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**Author:** ![DesertFly](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/desertfly/32/12695_2.png) [@DesertFly](https://forums.plex.tv/u/DesertFly)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 2:58am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/duplicate-local-music-genres/796362/2 "2022-06-15T02:58:41Z")

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I believe this issue is if you multiple genre tags like “Pop; Rock; etc.” vs a single tag “Pop” it will get split so you have 2 “Pop” genre’s in Plex.

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**Author:** ![drzoidberg33](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/drzoidberg33/32/4184_2.png) [@drzoidberg33](https://forums.plex.tv/u/drzoidberg33)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 9:06am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/duplicate-local-music-genres/796362/3 "2022-06-15T09:06:37Z")

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This will be fixed in a future update, it’s due to a regression where we no longer trim whitespace from the ends of local genres.

E.g. “Rock” is not the same as " Rock".

You could also work-around the issue by ensuring delimited genres don’t contain spaces, e.g. `Rock;Pop;Alternative` and not `Rock; Pop; Alternative`

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**Author:** ![DesertFly](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/desertfly/32/12695_2.png) [@DesertFly](https://forums.plex.tv/u/DesertFly)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 1:48pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/duplicate-local-music-genres/796362/4 "2022-06-15T13:48:04Z")

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Thanks for confirming, I will have to wait for the fix because Plex is not the only software I use for music.

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**Author:** ![dexter\_walrus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dexter\_walrus](https://forums.plex.tv/u/dexter_walrus)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/duplicate-local-music-genres/796362/5 "2022-06-26T00:52:05Z")

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Oh I’m glad I’m not the only one and that a fix is coming (hopefully soon).

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**Author:** ![DesertFly](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/desertfly/32/12695_2.png) [@DesertFly](https://forums.plex.tv/u/DesertFly)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 5:52am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/duplicate-local-music-genres/796362/6 "2022-07-23T05:52:16Z")

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Thanks @drzoidberg33 for fixing the genre delimiter works perfect…

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2022, 5:52am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/duplicate-local-music-genres/796362/7 "2022-10-21T05:52:40Z")

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