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Old 12-11-2009, 08:28 AM   #93 (permalink)
Zarko
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Originally Posted by tore View Post
Thanks for your answers I might check out foobar one day soon and see how I like it.

I try to keep a high level of quality with my collection in the way I tag and organize files and so on, but I have to admit that genres are a bit of a problem. They're not very well defined and the dumbasses who came up with file tags only have 1 space for genre. It would make so much more sense to allow for more genre tags so that you could have supergenre and subgenres f.ex per file. Example, a file could be tagged as "Jazz" (supergenre) and "Big Band" (subgenre). Then you could sort stuff by supergenres and then subgenres in a hierarchy for example.

With the way it is now, genre tags in my collection is mostly just a badly structured mess. I don't know how many genres are in there. I think the best thing for me to do would be to come up with a list of supergenres and try to sort everything by those.
This applies to any media player really, but couldn't you just tag things genre wise as....

f.e.
ambum 1 - Jazz/Big Band
ambum 2 - Jazz/Big Band
ambum 3 - Jazz/Big Band
ambum 4 - Jazz/Big Band
ambum 5 - Jazz/nu-jazz
ambum 6 - Jazz/nu-jazz
ambum 7 - Jazz/nu-jazz

This would just be organised alphabetically, and have the exact same effect as you would want, no?

I use genres loosely, and mainly because its just plain easy.
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