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<blockquote data-quote="tomma123" data-source="post: 849471" data-attributes="member: 116355">I'm not trying to populate the database from my tags, I'm trying to get data directly into the db.&nbsp;I have an existing music db that I'm trying extract data from and load into MP. So far I've been able to do just about everything I need by just exporting data from my catTraxx db into the MP music db and then just running update/insert queries on the appropriate tables. At the end of the day the database is populated with the data I need, I just got it there manually as opposed to automatically grabbing it off the web via allumusic.com&nbsp;Where I'm stuck now is albumInfo.idGenre. I have the genre table setup with all the data I need, but for example, putting the number'1' into albumInfo.idGenre does not display the corresponding genre.strGenre. So far no matter what I put in that field, I don't get any output at all on the album page.&nbsp;Hope that makes sense.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tomma123, post: 849471, member: 116355"] I'm not trying to populate the database from my tags, I'm trying to get data directly into the db. I have an existing music db that I'm trying extract data from and load into MP. So far I've been able to do just about everything I need by just exporting data from my catTraxx db into the MP music db and then just running update/insert queries on the appropriate tables. At the end of the day the database is populated with the data I need, I just got it there manually as opposed to automatically grabbing it off the web via allumusic.com Where I'm stuck now is albumInfo.idGenre. I have the genre table setup with all the data I need, but for example, putting the number'1' into albumInfo.idGenre does not display the corresponding genre.strGenre. So far no matter what I put in that field, I don't get any output at all on the album page. Hope that makes sense. [/QUOTE]

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