Author Topic: Hierarchically Organize "Location" Tags in a similar way to "Genre Category"?  (Read 1896 times)

peggysparkles

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I can't start a new thread without saying that I've been using MusicBee for about a year and a half now and I'm still finding new and amazing ways to use this tool. It's just the best.

With that out of the way, I was wondering if anyone would be able to provide some suggestions for a particular goal I'd like to accomplish.

Basically, I was hoping to achieve "Genre Category"-like functionality for the "Location" tag. Basically, I'd like to be able to group music by location in a hierarchical way, e.g. "North America > Canada  > Montreal" or "Africa > Nigeria", etc. Ideally, I would be able to add various levels of location tags (continent, country, province/state, city) and then have these be sorted intelligently.

I realize that this is even more complicated than the "Genre Category" functionality, because that only has two levels (Genre Category > Genre) and this potentially has four (continent > country > province/state > city). If I have to keep it to one level, that would still be very useful (e.g. Continent > other location options).

Has anyone found a way to achieve this? Maybe with Virtual Tags?

(Since geographic information is relatively stable, I also wonder if this functionality couldn't be built into the software (or a plugin), such that it has an independent database of location information that intelligently parses the location field. But that sounds like a lot of development work to me).

psychoadept

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If you tag everything very consistently, you could probably achieve this with Virtual tags.  For instance, you could use the $Split function to create separate Continent, Country, State, and City tags from a Location tag that was arranged Continent; Country; State; City.
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peggysparkles

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Thanks, yes that might do the trick! This led me to the functions entry in the wiki (http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Functions) which looks dangerously amazing;)