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MrSinatra;594747 Wrote: > i wrote a bunch of posts for the BLISS apps blog which will be posted > soon, but i go into this somewhat more there. the most amazing aspect > of this to me, is how useless ALL the "pre-set" genre tags are, > regardless of what app you rip with. the default dropdown list in EAC > or winamp has about 5 sensible tags out of what looks like 100. > ridiculous the crap thats there, and even moreso, what isn't. > > for years i basically ignored the genre tag, and used a folder > hierarchy to establish basic genre keeping. this is useful b/c a good > app like winamp has smartviews and you can get basically realtime > dynamic updated views just by putting something in or out of a HD > location. (smartviews are very powerful, and can use all kinds of > multiple criteria to give you the results set you want) > > but for years i ignored the genre tag. i've now decided to go back and > try to reconsider it as one more criteria that can be used, not just for > custom views but regular browsing as well. one useful way to use the > tag, is if i have SRV in my \Blues\ folder, i can add a "Rock & Roll" > genre tag to it, and then a query of either/or will give me SRV in the > results. > > i use only ONE genre frame, and i do NOT try to use multiple terms in > the frame, using a separator character or something like that. this > means it will work in a similar fashion with anything that supports a > genre tag. (multiple frames or sep chars are not nearly universal > yet) > > i do not believe "Soundtrack" is a genre. its a category of a type of > recording, (and i do group them together on HD, but via multiple > differing groupings under broad genre folder types). its not a genre > in the sense that rock or blues or jazz is. those denote a style of > music. what style of music is "Soundtrack?" so i don't use that. i > can still listen to only soundtracks if i want, but i never do. genres > to me are to fit my mood. > > here is what i have tried to make everything use, one of these terms. > since i just started this a couple of months ago, this won't be my > final list, some terms may be added or deleted. > > > > i don't have "Soul" b/c i use R&B for that and don't feel the need to > break it down. (besides, in my folders i have "Motown and Soul") > > Adult Pop is for things like 10000 Maniacs or ABBA, but you can see > where ABBA could have been Disco too... basically, you just have to > pick one and go with it, and like i said i let the folder its in > influence that if sensible, so it can be both Adult Pop and Disco, or > whatever. I kinda use the same approach (different genres though), with the exception of treating soundtrack as a genre, intended for my wife's usage: soundtracks to romantic comedies and other women's movies tend to all sound alike to me ;) -- bakker_be http://www.last.fm/user/Bakker_be Main System: Touch; Marantz SR-5004; ' TMA Premium 905' (http://tmaaudio.com/premium905.html); BK Monolith+ FF; XTreamer; Pioneer PDP-LX5090H ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bakker_be's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30369 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80908 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
