Madaracs
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Use a decent tag editor like mp3tag. The issue is actually itunes itself (plus wherever you sourced your files from). Chances are that they have multiple genre options include the way they have been tagged. Vs evert with X11 is to reduce thus to a single genre tag option.
I don't think the issue is actually iTunes. It's often Gracenote CDDB that creates tag problems by what it returns when a track is ripped from CD.
In iTunes 12.1 (which is confusing and frustrating in and of itself) you can enable the column browser under [View]-->[Column Browser] (or by pressing command+B.) I've found the Column Browser in iTunes to be a remarkable tool when fixing tags on tracks. Genre is especially easy to fix as it is a default column in the column browser. Select a genre you don't agree with and correct it (command+i), highlight tracks that don't have a genre right click and "get info" (again command+i) to update them en masse. It's pretty slick actually.