I think the answer depends on your needs and the degree of variety in your collection. Personally I've gone for a similar schema you'd get if you used discogs as your source and combined genre and style tags using the \\ separator.
I've found that it provides a great degreeof granularity if you like exploring your collection this way e.g. as main Genre's you might use Pop/Rock, Jazz, R&B, RAP, Country, Blues, Electronic, Latin, Reggae, International, CLassical If you then combine styles with the genre it's easy to for e.g. hone in on all Pop/Rock or drill down to any of Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Folk within LMS. The real pity with LMS is it doesn't allow you to explore your library using multiple attributes e.g. show all artists/ albums with genre = Indie Folk and Alternative Singer/Songwriter. There is, however, a plugin under development that will change all that in due course. finally, if you're running linux you can use puddletag to automagically get the discogs genre and style metadata for you and you can have it written to custom tags of your choosing if you're worried about overwtiting any existing genre metadata. this can be automagically done across your entire collection and the only necessary involvmeent from the user is choosing which albums to get the data for and then reviewing and approving the proposed changes before committing them. -- audiomuze *'Linux finally gets a great audio tagger' (http://www.ubuntugeek.com/linux-finally-gets-a-great-audio-tagger.html): 'puddletag' (http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ audiomuze's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33613 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93760 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
