This is one of those rare cases where Reply-All is the right way to go. I'm not an RB developer so I have no idea how hard this is. Anyone else know?
John ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jonathon Watney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 07:41:06 -0800 Subject: Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Support for organizing by multiple genres per song. To: John Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John, On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 08:11 -0500, John Russell wrote: > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 07:22:40 -0500, John Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:32:43 -0800, Jonathon Watney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > John, > > > > > > Thanks for your reply. > > > > > > Stop me if I am wrong but I read your response as: RB cannot support > > > such a feature because not all (namely id3) tag formats support multiple > > > genre fields. > > > > > > Maybe I was not clear before. Songs would have as many genre references > > > as genre comment fields, no? And formats that do not support multiple > > > genre fields would obviously only have one genre reference. > > > > > > Or maybe I read your reponse wrong. I just do not see how id3 > > > limitations come into this if RB can intelligently extract tag fields. > > > > That is an excellent point. > > > > I also found this... > > > > http://smartplaylists.com/comments.php?id=107_0_1_0_C > > http://www.macosxhints.com/comment.php?mode=display&sid=20030409021945127&title=Smartlist+by+location%2C+please!&pid=0 > > > > These discuss using multiple genres if they are separated by commas in > > itunes. HOwever, it says that itunes just sees them as new genres. > > > > e.g. > > > > Rock > > Hard Rock > > Rock, Hard Rock > > > > are three separate genres, not a hierarchy like I think you want. The > > entire concept of the UI would have to be changed as itunes, the ipod > > and RB all use the drilling down into the genres concept. You would > > need to add an arbitrary number of levels to that. And at what point > > would you stop drilling down into genres and start seeing artists? > > > > e.g. > > > > Decend from Rock into Hard Rock. Now you see all your Hard Rock, but > > not your other just Rock songs. Would Hard Rock show up on the same > > level as just Rock songs? I would love to have this work somehow as > > "Classical" just doesn't cut it for my collection, but I'm not sure > > it can be jammed into the current tools. > > > > Actually, after thinking about this a little more, I guess that > sub-genres are not really necessary and all that you are looking for > is to have a single song be in more than one genre. Sort of the way > that v-folders work in evolution where a single piece of mail can be > in multiple v-folders and you don't have to have multiple copies of > the same song. That might be really nice and not require any changes > to the UI as the song would simply appear in more than one genre. > Would this work? That sounds exactly what I want! :-) VFolders is an excellent analogy. I wish I thought of it. Now, would this be hard to implement? Jonathon. _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
