Posted by dadiOH on 12/16/05 15:30

Mike Archer wrote:

> My biggest gripe with the genre tag is that I can only assign one
> genre to each MP3.

Man, do *I* agree. Tags are a wonderful thing - and I'm grateful to the
creators of same - but those creators screwed up big time with genres.
Take v1 tags for example...

One byte for a genre number. That gives the potentiality of 256 genres.
They didn't use all (thankfully!) but among them they included such
useful genres as "Porn Groove" and "Polsk Punk". I have no idea what
those are but I guarantee I'll never use them; yet, I have to wade
through them.

How much better it could have been...keep the chintzy one byte but use 4
bits for a main genre (there could be 16) and 4 bits for a sub-genre.
That way each of the 16 main genres could have 16 sub-catagories.

Too late now <sigh>

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