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[ej]

Anyone know if there's any way of extending the list of genres?

It's woefully inadequate at the moment. There's no way of distinguishing R'n'B, garage, drum'n'bass amongst modern genres.

Or World Music (and its sub-genres?)

Or the sub-genres of classical?

[NoCodeUK]

Can u not just type these in???
It would be impossible for J River to be able to think of every single genre people might want.  Therefore the genres are generic.  If you want more detailed ones I think you will have to add them yourself...

Adam

[ej]

but where and how? it seems the list is hard-coded (and its fixed nature inherited from id3?)

I could use a custom field I suppose, but why change it?

Also the genre field is often populated from CDDB.

[NoCodeUK]

I thought you could type in the genre field??? Im sure you can in version 9 which is what I am using.  Sorry if you can't...it's been a while since I used v8...

Adam

[KingSparta]

you can type in what ever you want.

ID3v1 is hard coded because thats how it was made, it has nothing to do with MJ it is just the way id3v1 is.

you can still type in what you want it will be saved to the database and id3v2 if id3v2 is enabled.

I think matt said they were getting away from hard coded genres (id3v1) since people keep making up there own and there are so many of them.

[Scronch]

Just make everything Booty Bass.

The "official" genre list was created by morons.  Ignore it and use your own.  I will be happy when MJ allows me to blow away the unused "official" genres.

Scronch

[Michael Horton]

I use two genres--old, new

old is music from 1940 to 1965, and it encompasses western swing, honky tonk, rockabilly and 50s rock.

new is music from 1965 to the present, and includes the rolling stones, mott the hoople/ian hunter and loads of 1980s-90s indie pop, indie rock, alt rock, alt country and alt country rock.

also, I have two playlists--old, new.

Old is music . . . .

[ej]

I was being a bit dim this morning, didn't try typing in the combo box. but was looking for a menu item somewhere called "edit genres" or somesuch.

Anyway, have used "genre" and one of the custom fields for sub-genres - e.g. classical - chamber music; classical - opera.
"genre" is subjective; it's more a general descriptive tag.

The id3.org site's been inaccessible all day but I guess I should look there for more information on the metadata schema. I can see how you could have quite a cool genre schema using xml.

I forget to which musical legend (a blues man I think) we should attribute the saying, "there's only two kinds o' music, good music and bad music.."

[zevele10]

Genres ? Hey Hey !

What do you think about :
'punk X ' genre = punk songs with 4 words letters

'Eagles QI' genre = songs where such a waste as eagles or friends have ONE intelligent word in they songs.
There is still to create genres like

''listenable prog'
'no idiot hard rock'
'grade 5 rock songs'
and so on.

Or you know what you like and genre is not that important

or you need cdbb and stuff like it to know what you are listening to ,if thi case use  WinAmp

Now ,if you want to arrange  your music,you may use playlist.
If you know about the music you like ,your problem is to be able to listen or to play to friends "this "kind of music .
For this i use playlist

" et la bite a la main arrosait de son sperme les sexes autochtotes' from Europe by Noir Desir that i am listening on MJ8

[ej]

maybe:

<descriptions>
    <description source="me">

[ej]

sorry that wasn't ready

[ej]

as I was saying, though this is probably the wrong forum....
maybe
<descriptions>
  <description source="me" schema="myown">
      <genre>dance</genre>
      <genre>cheesebag</genre>
      <mood>mindless</mood>
      <tempo>120</tempo>
  </description>
  <description source="label" schema="ifpi">
      <genre>dance</genre>
      <genre>happy house</genre>
      <mood>uplifting</mood>
  </description>
  <description source="my mate">
    ... etc ...
  <description source="some fan website">
   ... etc ....
</descriptions>