How to work with (sub)genres in foobar?

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#1

Okay, as the title says, how do you work with multiple genres? I'm a very detailed person and want my music to be categorized correctly. I'll give an example of my situation:

I mainly listen to metal, so I'll use that as a good example, because it confuses me more so than any other genre. And the music program I'm using is foobar2000. The band "Red Fang" according to metal-archives is Stoner Metal and Rock. So initially, this is how I tagged it: Metal\Stoner\\Rock. This is how it shows in foobar: you can see how tagging other bands shows up as well

I don't find that to be correct [this applies to other bands as well]. I wanted them to appear as separate genres. So if a band has multiple genres (e.g., Doom/Sludge metal), they'd show up under each one individually --- not "Doom, Sludge" as one genre. It occurred to me that Rock is the umbrella genre and that things should look something like this:

How would I go about tagging bands this way in mp3tag and it showing correctly in foobar? can it be done? or am I better off just placing each band with one genre and going about it that way? A good example that also has me baffled currently is the band "Kadavar", they're Stoner Rock (metal), Hard Rock and Psychedelic rock. I'd rather them be tagged with each genre as I showed in the example. I don't know how to just... pick one when they have more than one genre incorporated in their music. Is this even possible?

Thanks for any feedback.



#2

It all depends on the player: it has to cope with the entries in GENRE.
You can create multiple fields of the type GENRE (which, I think, you already did withMetal\Stoner\\Rock: here Rock should be separate from Metal\Stoner as MP3tag uses \\ as indicator that you have 2 fields of the same kind).
Still, I think it is the track that belongs to a certain genre, not the band.
So it should be easy to put "Sludge" into genre for one track and Doom for the other.
Actually, I do not think that any player has a listing of Genre by Band. You will always see the genre and then all the tracks with that feature but never a listing of bands and a summary of all the genres.

So try multi-value fields and see what they do for your requirements.