Chip Hart;143900 Wrote: 
> > 
> 
> > 20thC
> > Chamber
> 
>       Which of these takes precedence?  If someone writes 20th century
>       Chamber music (and I presume you have a 21stC now...), where do
>       you put it?  Or 20thC Choral?  
> 
>       

thats the whole point - neither takes precedence, I use multiple
values.

So ALL of my classical music gets the tag "classical".  It also gets
one of "baroque", "classicalperiod", "romantic", "20thC".

Except sometimes for crossover work when it might get two of those.

Then its likely to get tagged as one of "symphony", "concerto",
"choral" or "chamber".

So a Mozart symphony would be "classical;classicalperiod;symphony" and
I can browse under any of those genres and find it. Or a Milhaud sonata
might be "classical;20thC;chamber;woodwind".

The important thing for me was to think about how I want to choose
music. Obviously if you know what you want to listen to, you just
search for it and play it. But often I don't know - but I do feel like
listening to something like... a symphony, or choral, or baroque, or
piano. This system lets me do that.

Personally I find this works very well, as I get a relatively short
list of genres when browsing, but without being constrained by a
restrictive classification system.... YMMV!

Ideally, of course, I'd like to be able to do a cascaded browse so that
having selected "symphony" I could then further browse by period (or
conductor, or whatever)... this is the subject of an enhancement
request!

Ceejay


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