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Use a Comment Tag to subdivide genres

I find one Genre Tag to be limiting on certain kinds of music. Take the Housemartin's Excellent 'London 0 Hull 4' album which could be considered Rock, Pop interspersed with some Gospel music.

I will use the comment tag to cover additional genres and build my genre based playlists this way:

Match ANY of the following conditions:

Genre - CONTAINS - Celtic
Comment - CONTAINS - Celtic

Why CONTAINS for the genre instead of IS ?

Well, I have added some genres to break down large sections of my collection. My Celtic music is categorized in the following genre's:

Celtic
Celtic-Bluegrass
Celtic-Folk
Celtic-Pop
Celtic-Traditional
Celtic-Rock

and so on. The same for some of my classical music and other genres.

by momerath on Oct 15 | 11:05 am

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I am also a strong believer in using the Comments tag/field to hold keywords. I like to listen to mellower music of any particular genre, so for every song (no matter what genre it is) that is slower and quieter, I have put "(quieter)" in the comments field.

I have also split up my Rock genre into..

Rock
Rock-Alternative
Rock-Folk
Rock-Classic (which I then can subdivide using Year)
Rock-Easy (as in Easy Listening)

It's so much easier to do all this as you add your music than to go back and reevaluate your collection later. Collections can grow so quickly. I think it's very important to have a strategy before your collection gets to big.

by Mike on Oct 17 | 9:50 am

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