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General => MusicBee Wishlist => Topic started by: Doc on July 30, 2012, 08:15:28 AM

Title: Sub-genre organisation?
Post by: Doc on July 30, 2012, 08:15:28 AM

Hi Steven,

I wonder if this can already be done in some way that I haven't thought of but... is there a way of organising genres together? For example, within the Black Metal genre, there are a number of sub-genres, such as Melodic Black Metal, Experimental Black Metal, Raw Black Metal etc. This follows in a lot of metal & rock sub-genres, and I'm sure in other styles of music as well. However they are all still Black Metal. Is there a way of having a genre tag or similar, so I can assign a particular genre to this tag? In this way rather than having;

Genre
 - Black Metal
 - Experimental Black Metal
 - Melodic Black Metal
 - Raw Black Metal

It could also be sorted like;

Genre
 - ALL BLACK METAL (tag)
   -- Black Metal
   -- Experimental Black Metal
   -- Melodic Black Metal
   -- Raw Black Metal

Thanks for an awesome program!

Title: Re: Sub-genre organisation?
Post by: Steven on July 30, 2012, 09:09:54 AM

thats what the Genre Categories tag does. See the Tags(2) preferences to configure the genre groupings

Title: Re: Sub-genre organisation?
Post by: Doc on July 30, 2012, 09:11:07 AM

I don't know how I missed that pretty obvious button :\ Thanks Steven!

Title: Re: Sub-genre organisation?
Post by: Steven on July 30, 2012, 07:41:21 PM

i've redone the editor for the genre-category mapping in the preferences so its a lot easier to use now.
its in the next update

Title: Re: Sub-genre organisation?
Post by: Doc on July 31, 2012, 04:14:11 AM

Great, looking forward to it. Really nice feature to have.

Title: Re: Sub-genre organisation?
Post by: Steven on July 31, 2012, 06:17:44 PM

this has the change:
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V2/MusicBee_Exe_Patched.zip

Title: Re: Sub-genre organisation?
Post by: Doc on July 31, 2012, 08:03:03 PM

Brilliant! That makes it so much easier to work with (I was editing the config file manually because it was faster than the older dialog). Great work.