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[tcman41]

Thanks to music forums, russian download sites and the like i have required an insane amount of music in the last three months, now at about 1,100 albums and counting.

My 9 different genres held up well for awhile but now with all this music they are starting to break down, so i am adding more genres, is it possiable to make sub catagories of a genre?, like light rock , hard rock and oldies rock under one genre of rock, it would sure come in happy and really make my month.

Any help would be great.

TC

[GrantDG]

Windows Media has a concept of "Mood" - but it's a bit useless within WMP

What you could do is create a new "Sub-Genre" (or Mood??) Field in the Library (Tools | Options... | Library | "Add"). After the field is added, create a new view using this field...

[zxsix]

Here's what I do....

Use the wonderful atagger plugin.
Create the new library fields required to run it.
I added one called "STYLES", which is a ; delimited list.
The site that atagger refers to throws most of my music into a general genre of ROCK.
Way too broad.
So, I leave the genre field blank when I import songs.
Then run atagger with the checkbox checked to update the genre and artist styles fields (among others).
So, atagger will suggest ROCK for the genre.  I then look down at the STYLES field, which may have 3 or 4 thing listed.  I then choose from those which one I think is the main one and manually fill that on in for the genre field, overwriting "rock".

I end up with the following main genres:
Alt Metal, Alternative, Blues, Classical, Country, Gothic Rock, Grunge, Indie Rock, Industrial Metal, Instrumentals, Metal, Pop, Post-Grunge, Progressive Rock, Punk Rock, Rap, Rapcore, Rock,  Southern Rock, Swing, Thrash Metal.