>As I've set the tag delimiter in SC to be ; SC puts songs tagged thus >into the two specified genres whereas MIP creates Christmas;Choral as a >genre in it's own right.
Yep, MusicIP is good, but SC scanning/library capabilities are far superior. Therefore, don't let MusicIP overwrite your tag info in SC (using my plugin patch). Then, SC library will still be good, and only if you use MusicIP GUI will you see problematic tag data. An additional thing you could do with Genre tags is to actually add multiple genre tags to your files, rather than use a delimiter. I use Mp3Tag, which allows me to enter multiple genres (you can enter "Singer Songwriter\\Acoustic", and this will automatically store two separate genre tags. FLAC fully supports multiple genres. With mp3 id3v2 tags (no real standard), it stores a null delimeter between the genres. SqueezeCenter supports this; you will get the same behaviour as using ";" delimier - the song belonging to two genres. Foobar supports it too. There is a benefit with "unaware" applications, such as MusicIP, as they read up to the null and ignore the rest. So, if you put your primary genre in first, MusicIP will read just that genre - you don't get additional genres where it has ignored the ";" delimeter, which is a bit better. However, it often means that if you rewrite tags back from an "unaware" application, the additional genres will be lost. eg. if you "archive analysis" in MusicIP, it modifies the tags, and will write only the first genre back, losing any genres that it didn't previously read from the tags. Phil _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
