Posted by dadiOH on 11/15/15 11:29

Terry Pinnell wrote:
> I'm making (another!) assault on my disorganised music library.
> Current task is assigning a Genre tag to those without one. I know
> that categorising tracks is largely a matter of personal opinion, and
> what you intend to do with the data.
>
> My main hesitations arise when trying to choose between categories
> that are *both* arguably valid, such as:
>
> Pop and Rock, Pop and Vocal, Soul and Vocal, Jazz and Vocal, Jazz and
> Soul, Instrumental and Jazz, Instrumental and Vocal, Jazz and Big
> Band, Jazz and Blues, Blues and Vocal, etc

The problem (as I see it) is that we have a proliferation of genres but
no subdivision thereof. As one example, "Jazz" could have many
subdivisions such as Big Band, Small Group, Dixieland, Bop, Vocal...etc.
Not to mention decades.

Personally, I use basic genres and use the comment field to
sub-catagorize as desired. Many don't get a comment field catagory...I
know Ella FitzGerald is a female vovalist :)

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