Actually, Scronch, I've been toying with the idea of just getting a gigantic subwoofer...then everything is always Booty Bass, all the time!
Listening to: 'Peanut Butter & Jelly' by 'Chipman & The Buckwheat Boys' on Media Jukebox
Mirko:
I'm not sure what you mean by "this shouldn't be possible." Do you mean that my non-standard genres will only show up in MJ and not in other programs? I have MP3, MPC, OGG and APE files in my library and the genre tags I've made all show up in other programs, like Winamp. IIRC, ID3v1 is very inflexible and will only let you use the standard genres, but ID3v2, APE tags (for APE and MPC) and OGG tags don't force any kind of constraints on what genre you're allowed to use. Also, I don't really share my files with other people, but if I did and they didn't like the way I have them tagged, then yeah, I guess they'd have to change them.
"...you can, especially with MJ, make playlists that match this criteria (filter on the year)."
This is true, but for various reasons, not all of my files have the year information in the tags. It's easier to put them in a genre like Pop: 80s, than spend time looking up the year info somewhere. Also, sometimes when you copy a Greatest Hits cd, the liner notes don't always have the year listed for each individual tracks.
"I personally don't like MP3s with wrong genre-tagging. Some people really tag "Prince" as "Blues" or "Faith more more" with "Rock"."
I don't like to tag a whole album as one genre if there are many styles of music on it. Not all Prince songs are the same style, so if there was a Blues song on a Prince album, then I would tag that specific track as blues. Actually, I have a genre called Prince, which I use for Prince, 0{ >, Prince & The Revolution, The NPG, and also for songs by other artists that Prince has written. Creating a playlist to filter all those songs would take a lot of searching through my library, so it's just easier to use Prince as the genre when I rip the cd. Another example, I don't tag all Pet Shop Boys songs as Dance because they also have some songs that are more Pop than Dance.
Rob