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I have used ID3V1-compatible “Genre” tags for years in order to achieve backwards compatibility with portable players and other software. My library is made up of mostly MP3 files.

This choice has made the “Genre” field rather uniform (the ID3V1 standard for “Genre” allows no more than 256 values) and not meaningful (I used some “spare” values with another meaning).

Now I understand that a better way can be to have the “Genre” field in MC containing the correct genre, and to add an “ID3V1 Genre” field which is in sync with the ID3V1 (and ID3V2) file tag, and is ID3V1-compliant. Just after creation it must be populated via the Move/Copy function as a copy of the original “Genre” field. Then the “ID3V1 Genre” field has to be configured to be written to files (in Tools > Options > Library > Library Fields > “ID3V1 Genre” > Edit > Store in file tags (when possible) option checked).

Is this the correct way to migrate to a better “Genre” classification, while maintaining ID3V1 Genre backwards compatibility?