Just an idea I have for now. I'll try to make it work. But only if there are people that want to use it.
The Consept-drawing (ONLY an illustration of possible solution):
EDIT:
Older versions:
Version1GUI version 2
This are ONLY examples of styles and moods ++ that we can use. Think we still need to limit the choises a bit.
Maby there could be only one group of stuff rather than split it into Theme and Style/mood
Key features* Choose wich mood/styles (or whatever we will call it) that fits best for your favourite songs
* Choose within a PREDEFINED set of style/moods that will ease the tagging and search (will NOT contain hundreds of different alternatives that will make it difficult to tag the tracks and to make a search with any significant hits)
* Uses FTP to transfer data to the database server. Stored together for all to use. Or individual data that are compared, and the moste used tags for each track are chosen. Much like King Spartas Data Master.
* A batch job searches for title/artist/album and return tags for any hits (will work in a similar way as King Spartas Lyric Finder)
The basic ideaA plugin wich makes you able to choose the basic characteristics of your favourite songs and share it with everyone.
Today many use genre, sub genre, style and moods etc, etc. But there are NO standards and no rules.
Most persons do not bother or have the time to tag genre etc. to each song/title. Most people use genre on each album or whole artists. That often makes smartlists with genres a bit off. We also got the fact that there are alot of disagreement on what styles fit each artist/track.
The idea is to make use of a custom field that defines the song with apropriate predefined tags chosen by YOU.
That way it will be really effective to make smartlists that fill everyday moods and needs, like slow warm music
for a cold winter evening, a normal to fast tempo party list and a slow one for the after party, or a energetic funky playlist for your own enjoyment.
With the combination of this and tags already used in MC, this could prove to be the next best thing after beer
I have had a little discussion with Sparta and I know this COULD be done with Sparta's Data Master. But he have not planned on implementing the predefined tags. At least not yet.
I would like to do this with your help and suggestions, to make a plugin that we all can benefit from.