Urban Hat€monger ?

That's the only kind of tagging we're talking about though

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Torben1

interesting

^^

i do it because i have a special mental disorder that makes me want to tag my music correctly

or maybe it is because it will be easier for me to find similar music on the internet when i have the correct genre tagged or when i have a lot of knowledge about genres?

anyway, i think we should end this discussion

Dylstew

Well, people were saying they don't get ID3 tagging as a whole.
I think it's pretty damn obvious what it's use is.

Chula Vista

Rock
Pop
Country
Blues
Classical

What else is there?

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Zyrada

Jazz, Electronica, Metal, Hip-Hop? Granted, you could argue Electronica and Metal are ultimately subgenres of Pop and Rock, to which I would respond that Electronica definitely isn't, even if it does overlap a lot with Pop.

You could have discussions like this ad nauseum, so it seems like putting too much energy into musical genre taxonomy is kind of pointless. It's often nearly impossible to get just right and very easy to get horribly wrong, and either way, you're sacrificing some level of appreciation for the music itself by imposing arbitrary expectations and restrictions on what it can and cannot do. Genres should be used sparingly as descriptors and nothing more than that.

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Chula Vista

Fixed via Zyrada.

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Paul Smeenus

http://musicgenreslist.com/music-gen...pes-genres.pdf

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innerspaceboy

Genre tags are incredibly useful, but only if you tag your artists in a way that you, personally understand and that is directly useful for your own music library.

An artist may be simply tagged as "Electronic" on the Wikipedia, but if you have several hundred electronic artists in your library, then you'd sub-categorize your %genres% into "Berlin School Proto-Ambient" or "Minimal Darkwave" or anything so long as it's aids in the navigation of your collection.

In my own library, I rely heavily on genres, (often substituting a record label in the %genre% field if I have a complete discographic archive of a particular label with a consistent sound.) This way, I can employ dynamic playlists to quickly create "mood" or "occasion" stations on the fly.

BOTTOM LINE - use whatever works for you.

Dylstew

My music player has a custom tag thingie for moods and my genres are really correct for some and not really correct for other albums, it's so inconsistent and making it consistent would require so much work I kind of gave up.

Pop
Country
Folk
Blues
Rock (And it's two big sub genres: Punk and Metal)
Classical
Jazz
Electronic
Soul (And it's big sub genre: Funk)
Hip Hop
traditional, different per country.
Ska/Reggae/Rocksteady.

innerspaceboy

You only need three genres.

Early (Medieval c. 500–1400, Renaissance c. 1400–1600)
Common practice (Baroque c. 1600–1760, Classical c. 1730–1820, Romantic c. 1780–1910)
Modern/contemporary (Modern c. 1890–1975, 20th century 1900–2000, Contemporary c. 1975–present)

You can start a temporary folder for 21st century... once it's over we'll sort those files out.