multiple genre support: ongoing work? offer of help

[Arvid Piehl Lauritsen Böttiger]

First, I'm not a developer, and I don't know much about how mp3 (or
any other codec) works :)

However, doesn't ID3 only supports a single genre? if that is true
"multiple genre support" would be something which is Amarok only (I
mean, you can't move the song to another player with support for
multiple genres and expect it to work)?
And if it's Amarok only, then how is it different from labels?

At the moment Amarok allows you to put labels on all your files, and
use the labels for filtering/grouping/whatever. Just label all you
punk with a "punk" label and make a smart playlist containing all song
with a punk-label.

At least that's the way I do it, and it work great.

best regards

Arvid Bøttiger

On 10/27/07, Morgan Venable <Morgan at moto.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm interested in getting involved in helping to get multiple genre
> support working in Amarok -- from what I can tell googling around, there
> hasn't been a lot of work on this except the occasional mention and
> subsequent abandonment.
> If I'm wrong, and my metadata is simply not in the right shape to take
> advantage of an existing implementation, that would be great to know.
>
> Is there anyone working on this right now?
> If so:  can I be of assistance?
> If not:  anyone have any recommendations regarding existing pitfalls,
> issues, etc?
>
> My primary interest is in multiply-linked user-defined genres, as
> opposed to the potentially difficult AMG/genre/style/substyle hierarchy,
> which I'm not convinced really maps to any real person's semantics.
> I.e. I'm only interested in the top level for starters.
>
> Just to be clear what I'm talking about:
> Tag a song as punk, ska, and monkrock (i.e. non-AMG user-defined genre)
> Go to punk, find it there.
> Go to ska, find it there too.
> Go to monkrock, find it there as well.
>
> Any and all input welcome, off list if you like -- not familiar yet with
> the level/type of traffic here.
>
>
> thanks!
>
> morgan
>
> Morgan Venable
> Project Lead
> MOTO Development Group, Inc.
> 85 Second Street, Suite 710
> San Francisco CA 94105
> Tel (415) 365-2708
> morgan at moto.com
>
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