ppmoore;282149 Wrote: > > Since the original post, I've come up with another question. Is there a > standardised way to classify albums by genre?
You wish... > > I use CDex to rip my CDs, and usually it (or rather CDDB) provides > different genre classifications for different albums from the same > artist. For example, the two CDs from Placebo that I have are > classified as Rock and Alternative. FreeDB sucks at genres. Totally arbitrary. You should be glad it got close.. > > Does anyone know if there is a standard classification for this > available somewhere? Welcome to the world of Library Science. Genres are very much a black art. How would you classify, say, Dylan? Singer-Songwriter? Folk? Rock? Is Singer-Songwriter correct when he is covering an old blues song? Is Folk correct for anything past the mid60s? Is Slow Train Coming a Gospel album? What about Saved? This all gets to be very personal, and SC lets you have multiple genres (so you can have "Folk;Live;Bootleg" for a track) and you may want to set Genres at a track level, not an album or artist level... That said, http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=73:p is at least an interesting classifacation scheme. Maybe it will give you ideas on how you want to structure yours. Beware, consistent and coherent genres are a very difficult task, very much akin to Library Science. You will admire and respect librarians more for their work in classifying materials. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45101 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
