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How do you match genre?

How can I validate each track's genre?

With so many tunes, it seems difficult to get all the genres right. Is there a way yo perhaps match the track artist and title to a database and verify the genre, or amend it where necessary?

by tomson on Dec 30 | 6:31 pm

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Limiting to 2 or 3 genres

I use a set of Smart Playlists that spans a decade of pop/rock/r&b music, so I can "jukebox" a decade of music if I wish. The problem in iTunes (at least up through v4.2) is that it does not allow for certain boolean combinations. What I would LIKE to do is:


year is in the range 1970 to 1979
genre contains Rock
genre contains R&B
genre contains Pop

iTunes SHOULD allow me to specify "AND" and "OR' operators between entries in the Smart Playlists, but does not. As a result, the above returns an empty playlist, since I have no songs that are Rock AND R&B AND Pop. (I would like it to match if "genre contains Rock" OR "genre contains R&B" OR "genre contains Pop").

So how do I get this to work? My 1970's list reads this way:


Year is in the range 1970 to 1970
Album does not contain RM-
Album does not contain JM-
Genre is not Chrisitan
Genre does not contain Jazz
Genre is not Aircheck
Genre is not Christmas
Genre is not Comedy

The list has to specificly EXCLUDE any genre from the specified timespan that I don't want to show up in the list. (The "Album does not contain" is for a series of cassettes dated from this same era which I have recorded into MP3's, and which I are labelled as as Albums called "RM-01", "JM-26", etc).

If I were to add music to my library that was, for example, classical music dated 1976, I would have to add a line to this Smart Playlist that says


Genre is not Classical

This makes for a long Smart Playlist definition, but it works until Apple gives us better boolean logic between entries for these lists.

by Steven Weyhrich on Dec 22 | 7:33 pm

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Clean Holiday Music

I'm using the new Grouping tag to create a clean holiday music smart playlist. I've added my sub categories of Christmas music to the grouping tag (comedy, jazz, rap, classic, country, etc.)

Create a smart playlist:


Match all conditions
Genre is Christmas
Grouping does not contain Comedy
Grouping does not contain Rap

by dfbills on Dec 20 | 3:04 pm

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iTunes Hot Tips

Apple now has an iTunes Hot Tips page with many helpful shortcuts. Also included is a complete list of Keyboard Shortcuts!

http://www.apple.com/itunes/hottips/

Our favorites:

-Create a new Smart Playlist: Option-Command-N

-Create a new Smart Playlist: Option-click the Add (+) button

by dfbills on Dec 19 | 2:12 am

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Apple quietly releases iTunes 4.2

Apple has released a new version of iTunes. Version 4.2 includes the ability to sign in and buy music from the iTunes Music Store using either an AOL or Apple Account, view the iTunes Music Store in a separate window, and offers a number of performance improvements.

A new tag was introduced with this update, called grouping. It is a user-defined tag which enables better categorization. Usage possibilities range from sub categories of genres to classical movements. This should make for more flexibility with both smart playlists and general sorting.

by dfbills on Dec 19 | 12:34 am

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