On 08/03/2010 02:59 PM, MrRalph wrote:
> Started way back with quite some genres, but ultimately decided to make
> it simple and went back to Modern, Classical, Soundtrack and Musical.
> With 2.200+ albums, it's time to rethink that decision. How do you use
> genres?


Genres are useless.

They have always been fairly useless, ever since the early MP3 software 
invented the concept. The programmers age and tastes showed. Eventually, 
the concept was expanded to be free text, but the damage has been done.

A given song often has many genres, which depend a lot on the opinions 
of the listener.

What you want is a "classification" so you could separate based on what 
you want. I have a lot of "jazz" and I think of that as a very broad field.

I've argued on the developer's list for a substantially different 
schema, but it got too little support.

-- 
Pat Farrell
http://www.pfarrell.com/

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