Author Topic: Best way to group genres ? (tagging / MB setup)  (Read 2258 times)

Bifidusse

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Hello  :)

I sort my music into folders. I tried to have few genre of music, for my folders, as for tags.

In MB, I'd like to sort :
- by genre (when I want a specific genre, e.g folk hard rock)
- by genre category (when I want to look for rock, whatever the kind of rock)


But I don't really figure how this works.

E.g :
AC/DC is tagged as hard rock (genre).

In MB, if I sort by genre category, AC/DC is under "rock" (nice).

But I have other albums that are not in a genre category, even if they have a genre. E.g french music is sorted in french music when I sort by genre (ok), but is not in a genre category when I sort by genre category.

How are these genre categories set ? Is there a way to define them ? (rock = hard rock + punk rock + etc) Or is it automatic ?

Another - fully working - way is to assign a group tag.

AC/DC will then be tagged as hard rock (genre) and rock (grouping)

This way of doing seems to be 100% working.

But is it fine ? I mean, does this group tag designed to be a "meta genre" ? Or should I use genre category ?

Thanks  8)



psychoadept

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You can configure genre - genre category associations in Tags (2) Preferences.
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Bifidusse

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Awesome !
I didn't see this option, thank you !

Is there something MB can't do ?  :-*