[Empeg-general] Re: Genres

[yn0t_@empegbbs-noreply.merlins.org]

Yeah...  Multiple genres are only supported in ID3v2 though...  The Genre frame in ID3v2 (TCON frame I believe) is a simple field, but I think the standard is that if you use this field and separate it by null characters, you can have multiple genres.  I am now ID3v2-only on all my songs thanks to a quick and dirty Perl script I cooked up which deleted all my V1 tags.  So multiple genres per track would be sweet.

Yeah "Alternative" means different things to different people.  I never understood that term.  This whole music sorting thing is tough!  Even breaking down my Rock folder is tough...  Then when I get to my Electronic folder it's almost impossible because there are real subtleties that separate some of the subgenres.  Yet if I just lump them all together there's no cohesion...  Sigh.

If MoodLogic actually did half of what it says it does that'd be great.  I can't come up with good categories for half of these songs.  Having "tones" or "moods" associated with each song would rule, but it'd take years to enter that kind of stuff manually, and would be too subjective to trust to some service like Moodlogic.  Oh well.

Once this is done I'm sure it'll be worth it though.  Having an 1100 song "Modern Rock" playlist just wasn't cutting it.