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[lise]

I'm slow.
I just noticed that one of my albums has the genre: alt-indie-rock, and in the tag menu below genre is a field called "grouping", which includes "alternative: Indie".

I have no clue what that field is or how it got populated.
Examples of usage would be helpful as well, to give me an idea of what I can do with this field.

[lise]

Anyone?
Is it part of stacks?
I explored stacks a while back, but I thought I played around with photos, not music.
Does the use of stacks add this grouping field?

[Alex B]

The Grouping field was mainly added for those who have used the Grouping field in iTunes.

It is linked with the TIT1 ID3v2 field.

Here's the official definition by id3.org:

TIT1
   The 'Content group description' frame is used if the sound belongs to
   a larger category of sounds/music. For example, classical music is
   often sorted in different musical sections (e.g. "Piano Concerto",
   "Weather - Hurricane").

I don't know why Apple decided to include a "Grouping" field in iTunes (it has a very limited amount of fields in total) and how the iTunes users are supposed to use it.

[lise]

Thanks for the reply, Alex.
I guess it is being filled by emusic or YADB, as these are the only online sources I use.