iTunes will show the whole string as a genre ... it's annoying but you can
use smart playlists to get round it i guess. for this reason, when i convert
my FLACs to lossy, i only copy the first genre in the list.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Horoschak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Slim Devices Discussion" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: [slim] Re: Tagging question
Thank you to everyone who provided insight to my tagging question.
Before I start the process of using multiple genre tags - how are these
handled in the iPod? Does it recognize multiple genres, just take the
first one, or does is see the whole string as a genre?
I want to make sure I don't screw up my library for portable listening.
Thanks.
- Dave
Siduhe wrote:
I couldn't agree with Snarlydwarf more. I tidied up all my tags using
(mostly) MusicBrainz and some other lookup programs, but then
immediately went back and redid all the Genre tags for two reasons:
1) Music classification is personal and genre tagging (IMHO) totally
random. I've had each disc of a two disc album classified for genre
totally differently. Also, I don't use some of the very common genre
tags (Electronica for example).
2) I use multiple genre tags in Slimserver.
A good interface to use to redo your genre tags is Tag & Rename (30 day
free trial). Speeds the whole process up.
Re: Music Magic, as far as I know it doesn't use the Genre information
at all - it analyses and validates all your music using an algorithm
and then matches those with similar results. If you're getting odd
results, it may be worth checking your preferences and setting the
"variety" options to low. Also, have you let MM analyse and validate
the entire library - this can take a good while (overnight in my case)
so it may be it hasn't finished reviewing everything yet ?
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