• Autofill once you start typing a few letters when you begin typing in either the Artist, Album Artist or, Genre columns
• Be able to select multiple category under different genres of music at once by adding check boxes.
New Genres have been added created over the years
Some of which are: Genre / Category
• Happy Hour
• New Jack Swing
• Dance Hall - [Bruckout - means Twerking / Raunchy Whining]
• Dance Hall - [Trapp]
• Soca - [Calypso]
• Hip Hop - [Twerk]
• Hip Hop - [Trapp]
• Lovers Rock - [Reggae]
• Culture [Reggae] [e.g., Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh, etc.]
Welcome wayniesinclair!
If you use User Defined Lists, you can already do the first request with MP3Tag as is. You have to define the list you would want to populate with the drop down but I have many fields, including mood, genre, composer that have predefined values that will populate as I type. It is a relatively new feature which is very useful for me.
Does your player support several genres?
How should such selected genres be saved in the tags? As a list in 1 field separated by which separator? Or as several fields of the same type?
The default genre list features the standard genres as defined for the ID3V1 standard. So if you want to add further genres you either add them in the custom list or you would have to change the ID3V1 standard.
Did you have a look at the custom lists for each field? You would have to fill theses lists by yourself. Please note the keyboard shortcut Shift-Enter to add an entry in theses fields to the custom list.
See also the documentation:
How can it autofill Artist if Mp3Tag does not have a database of all artists? You need Foobar or another media player that knows all your music. But the autocomplete becomes of limited use once you have hundreds of artists. You usually finish typing shorter names before the suggestions get narrowed down.
It would be really cool if some program finally did autocomplete like: "P. Tosh" -> "Peter Tosh" because writers usually have their first name omitted. It doesn't need to be as intelligent as Discogs, but consider the first and last names separately.
You can use any genre format that makes sense to you and works in other applications (which you actually use). You won't find a universal format that works everywhere.
I would use:
Pop; Pop Rock; Blues Rock
Pop; Dance-Pop; Latin; Electropop
Hip Hop; Pop Rap; Contemporary R&B
Jazz; Big Band; Holiday
Classical; Chamber Music
The first genre keyword is the most broad one. I don't need to think much to pick it. The following keywords narrow the style down further, and two people might disagree about them. If I don't know what kind of Pop it is, it is still found in the overall class of pop. I use a small number of non-stylistic classifiers: Holiday; Children's, Latin, Novelty. They all go on one list, like they do on descriptive websites.
The separator is defined by the tag format. It will be written as \00 in Ape tag (MP3/AAC/AC3/TAK/WavPack/APE/Musepack), multiple keywords in FLAC/Vorbis/Opus, and multiple 'atoms' in MP4. Some legacy applications might be doing it wrong and parsing a separator within a single long value.