Pass the genre name instead of the identifier to the id3 command as the numbers are offset by one. --- abcde-2.9.1.orig/abcde 2018-03-10 00:03:50.000000000 +0100 +++ abcde-2.9.1/abcde 2018-05-21 12:32:49.972288507 +0200 @@ -864,7 +864,7 @@ run_command "tagtrack-$OUTPUT-$1" nice $ENCNICE \ $TAGGER $TAGGEROPTS -c "$COMMENTOUTPUT" \ -A "$DALBUM" -a "$TRACKARTIST" -t "$TRACKNAME" \ - -y "$CDYEAR" -g "$GENREID" \ + -y "$CDYEAR" -g "$CDGENRE" \ -T "${TRACKNUM:-$1}" \ "${ABCDETEMPDIR}/track$1.$OUTPUT" ;;