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Title: Multiple Genres
Post by: The Muffin Man on December 17, 2003, 04:39:00 pm

Can I assign a file to multiple genres?
For instance, Gerge Winston's December brlongs to both New Age and Christmas.

Title: Re:Multiple Genres
Post by: lise on December 17, 2003, 10:54:07 pm

Create a custom field called subgenre or something
(Tools | Options | Tree & View | Add). Make it delimited list so that you can have Rock in the genre field, and then Christmas;alt-rock;singer-songwriter etc in subgenre.

Then you can create view schemes using those fields; eg:
Genre/subgenre
   Rock
      alt-rock
      singer-songwriter

Title: Re:Multiple Genres
Post by: The Muffin Man on December 18, 2003, 07:06:38 am

Thanks...
I'll give it a try.

Title: Re:Multiple Genres
Post by: cfgreen on December 19, 2003, 02:23:00 pm

Consider this

Look at an album listing at http://www.allmusic.com  (any one will do ) look for the Styles field right under the Genre.

This is what you want,

Create a comma delimited field in the media center libray DB.
Most times I can just copy and paste the info when i'm tagging

Hope this helps! Why reinvent the wheel?

Title: Re:Multiple Genres
Post by: lise on December 19, 2003, 06:00:49 pm

cfgreen

That's exactly what I do. Except that I didn't know you could create comma delimited lists, so I couldn't just copy/paste; had to search & replace ", " with ";nospace".

Title: Re:Multiple Genres
Post by: cfgreen on December 19, 2003, 07:33:24 pm

Nope, your right Lise,

It Is semicolon delimited, I never checked before now...
My searchs worked, I gave them up anyway.

At the same time I had done a field called Album Type
Class's were to target
AMG's Type field (comp, Live, etc) then JRiver added the same Field.
Figures I reverted back to the defaults.

I'll do it after Betas for the Future

Sidenote, < who settles for less then the latest?>  :)

Title: Re:Multiple Genres
Post by: pbreet on December 19, 2003, 08:45:48 pm

I've done this too for genre, made a new delimited field.

And something others may know already but...

I made a view scheme using my new GenreList as the first pane AND the second pane, then Artist (grouped), then artist and then album.

So I select "Blues" in the first pane, and then all the other genre's listed for any album with Blues in the list shows up in the second GenreList pane.

This makes it real easy to select Blues (pane one) and then Female (pane two) to get a listing of Blues-Female.

Title: Re:Multiple Genres
Post by: ThatAdamGuy on December 19, 2003, 09:25:03 pm

Ack... why isn't GENRE itself capable of having more than one item in it?  What a bummer :|

That IS cool, though, about how you can make a view using a category twice to narrow things down... thanks for the info!

Title: Re:Multiple Genres
Post by: rocketsauce on December 19, 2003, 09:47:07 pm

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why isn't GENRE itself capable of having more than one item in it?

Because it would probably break compatability with other programs that are compliant with the specs of the various tag formats.

If you really want a delimited genre field, though, just create a new custom field and call it Genre(s) (or something) and use it in place of the normal Genre field in all of your view schemes/smartlists.

Rob

Title: Re:Multiple Genres
Post by: ThatAdamGuy on December 19, 2003, 09:59:48 pm

Ah, good point, I hadn't thought about tag compatibility issues.  Thanks for the reply.