Genre tab?

[Alexander09138]

In iTunes there was a genre section where you could see all of them, re-name them. For example, I have some hip hop I want to put under

the same genre. Some are "Rap", "Hip Hop", "Rap/Hip Hop" etc...and I'd like to change them all to "Hip Hop/Rap" In iTunes, you could just

select all of those and change the tag...can you do that in Music Bee? Because I don't see it anywhere...if not, this definitely needs to be

included in a future update. Thanks.

[Steven]

could you post a screenshot from iTunes as I am not sure exactly what you mean

[jonap]

Alexander if you mean you just want to change a tag of lot of files at once, yes that's possible
select all the files you want, click shift+enter, edit the tag you want and then save the changes

[psychoadept]

Just to extend jonap's advice, if you're trying to change a value in a multi-value tag, start by finding all the files with that value. Select them, open the tag editor and then tag inspector. Then you can edit the specific value you want without disturbing other tags. Just beware that if you've selected any files without that tag, it will be applied to them, too.

[hiccup]

Select them, open the tag editor and then tag inspector. Then you can edit the specific value you want without disturbing other tags. Just beware that if you've selected any files without that tag, it will be applied to them, too.

If anything is going to be done related to this, it would be good if an 'add tag' feature would be added to the tag editor panel.
Especially for genres it makes perfect sense you would want to be able to simply add a tag without being worried that that action might delete existing tags.
Same for 'keywords'.

The fact that you can not do that in a tag editor, but you need to navigate to something called tag inspector isn't logical, nor intuitive, and not many users will find that by themselves.

As a secondary improvement—trying to imagine what the op intended—it might be nice to have a pop-up panel showing all genres and the category that they reside under, and make a genre clickable so to add it.
But that might be a bigger challenge to dress up nicely in the user interface.
(Also because users may be using their own customized genre/genre category list, and the amount of genres and categories will differ because of that.)


edit,
Giving the second part some more thought:
A practical and useful implementation could be that when you click 'add genre', the initial panel that pops-up would only contain your genre categories, and after you selected one, it would delve down and only display the genres that fall under that category.

As a rough indicator that might be helpful in defining some parameters:
If I am not mistaken, by default MusicBee has defined 21 genre categories, and the largest amount of genres that reside under one category is 119.
I have my own customized list, containing some 50 genre categories, and the largest amount of genres that reside under one category is 66.
Such numbers would be difficult to handle in a single panel, but probably not that hard in a two-step interface.

I don't know if this is what the op had in mind, but I myself would use an 'add genre' feature implemented like this for sure.