# Genre Tags Don't Update
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/genre-tags-dont-update/898657
**Category:** Metadata & Adding Files
**Tags:** server-windows
**Created:** [December 12, 2024, 7:50am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/genre-tags-dont-update/898657 "2024-12-12T07:50:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@randomrice1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/randomrice1)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2024, 7:50am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/genre-tags-dont-update/898657/1 "2024-12-12T07:50:13Z")
No matter what I do with refreshing metadata, changing sources, scanning my library, etc. the cached genres for my music do not update the list to what is saved in my metadata. I edited all of my genres to be title case and changed some other things like EDM instead of Edm, etc., but none of these changes populate in Plex and I don’t know why.
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### Author:  [@randomrice1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/randomrice1)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/genre-tags-dont-update/898657/2 "2025-01-21T21:10:36Z")
Bump to keep the thread alive.
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### Author:  [@Atomatth](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Atomatth)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/genre-tags-dont-update/898657/3 "2025-01-27T15:03:36Z")
Is your Music library set to `Prefer local metadata` and the Genre setting set to `Embedded Tags`?
Could you walk through a genre change, refresh your metadata, and provide your [pms logs?](https://support.plex.tv/articles/200250417-plex-media-server-log-files/)
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### Author:  [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/genre-tags-dont-update/898657/4 "2025-01-27T15:51:07Z")
> [@randomrice1](#):
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> I edited all of my genres to be title case and changed some other things like EDM instead of Edm, etc., but none of these changes populate in Plex and I don’t know why.
Genres are created in the database as a record when the first track containing that genre is added.
After that, the name of the genre is never updated, because it is shared by many tracks/albums/artists. So changing the spelling will probably have no effect unless you practically [Plex Dance](https://forums.plex.tv/t/the-plex-dance/197064) all tracks, albums, and artists which have the genre assigned to them.
The [Plex Dance](https://forums.plex.tv/t/the-plex-dance/197064) might even require you to wait up to a week before you can re-add the items, because the genre table is only purged once a week during automatic server maintenance.
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### Author:  [@randomrice1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/randomrice1)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/genre-tags-dont-update/898657/5 "2025-01-30T19:00:56Z")
The [Plex Dance](https://forums.plex.tv/t/the-plex-dance/197064) would delete my history and stuff though wouldn’t it? I don’t want to wipe all that data. Is there a reason the genres can’t be refreshed or is it just not implemented yet? I’d think a metadata scan should be able to read the genres in the tags and save the updates. Basically, the flow I’m thinking of would be like:
1. Scan Library Files/Refresh Metadata
2. New genres added to song listing
3. Wait for maintenance for clean up of genres that no longer have references
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### Author:  [@randomrice1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/randomrice1)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/genre-tags-dont-update/898657/6 "2025-01-30T19:01:48Z")
and yes, those things are all set
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/genre-tags-dont-update/898657/7 "2025-04-30T19:01:58Z")
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