multiple genre support: ongoing work? offer of help

[Jeff Mitchell]

On Saturday 27 October 2007, Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Saturday 27 October 2007, Morgan Venable 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?
>
> It's already implemented. Look into labels.

To expand on this a bit:

Most tagging formats either allow a single string for Genre (which makes it 
difficult to implement multiple genre support that has any sort of 
compatibility across players) or a predefined value.  Either one sucks for 
multiple genre support.

So, you should look into labels, as was previously mentioned.  But if you 
really want to help out, you could start getting involved by figuring out how 
labels should work in 2.0, and implementing them.  :-)

Warning: *don't* simply check out code and hack something together.  Talk to 
the developers first.  Ask around in #amarok to be pointed to some.

--Jeff