Revision: a51247083
VLC: ced0c03d9d
Phone: SM-G930F @ Android 7.0
First of all - let me start by thanking the collective VLC team for an amazing product. I have been an avid lover of VLC since the dinosaurs ruled, and continue to love the product on all my platforms.
After the recent update in January, I experienced problems with track listing by 'Genre'. The problem may be related to other listings as well (Album, Songs, etc..), but I've only noticed it in 'Genre'. I use MP3Tag and MixedInKey to deal with tagging of my music collection, which is exclusively lossless .AIFF files, tagged with ID3 v.2.3.
The general problem is that VLC does not sort tracks by genre in a correct manner. Tracks that are tagged with a specific genre end up in the wrong category, or is not listed by a genre at all. Other tracks are listed in several- or all genres. One problem seems to be that all files in an album where one or more tracks tagged with a specific genre is present - all files in that album is listed, regardless of other genres present. VLC doesn't seem to filter out the tracks that are tagged with genres other than the one specific genre in question - resulting in the same tracks showing up in several 'genre' listings.
From MP3Tag I see that 'Genre' is handled by;
Value: $meta_sep(genre,\\)
Field: %genre%
Reading the very same collection of music in VLC on Windows works just fine.
Cheers,
Tord