Posted by dadiOH on 10/22/07 21:20

Rob wrote:

> What i would like to do is categorize my music by type rather than
> specific playlists, so to speak... so if i want to hear Dance
> music, i can browse through a catalog i created named dance music,
> that i think is dance music, obviously you cannot relay on the
> genre column of any piece of software as it is never correct...

No, that isn't obvious at all. That's what "genre" is for. If a song
has incorrect data for "genre", change it. And with ID3v2 tags, you
can create your own genres; with ID3v1 tags, you have to use those
genres in the pre-defined list.

Yes, it takes time to assure the tags are correct. I took the time to
make my 40,000 correct and I know people that have done so with more
than 500,000.

If I want to listen to a particular genre ("catagory") I just open my
MP3 database and sort it by genre. I used the "comment" field for
sub-catagories and I can sort by that too.

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> Also i would
> like to be able to see if a song has been assigned a category wit
> in a playlist,

Not going to happen unless that is part of the file name as playlists
are just text entries listing the path to the MP3s so the player can
find them.

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