snarlydwarf wrote: > ppmoore;282149 Wrote: >> Since the original post, I've come up with another question. Is there a >> standardised way to classify albums by genre? > > You wish...
Its even more impossble than snarly hints. Think of the folklore that Eskimo's have 500 words for snow, while folks in Atlanda GA have two. If you look at the ID3 spec for genres, you can tell that the folks who invented them were all in their early 20s and didn't listen to jazz or "classical" > Welcome to the world of Library Science. Genres are very much a black > art. The library guys talk about "faceted controlled vocabulary" and still they argue for months. > Beware, consistent and coherent genres are a very difficult task, very > much akin to Library Science. You will admire and respect librarians > more for their work in classifying materials. And, using ID3 tags to implement this complex art is a sin. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
