I am tagging music files for use with the (free) RadioDJ playout app (for Windows, which I run inside a Parallels VM on a Macbook). It allows filtering of music by things like Genre. The filtering is semi-programmable in terms of string search/match in SQL, that the RadioDJ app supports, based on …

Maybe I will make an EspGenre field, put the (potentially) multiple values in there, then have some separate program "flatten" all instances of multiple values into single-values, being strings composed of the individual values (in a multiple-value set) sorted into alphabetical order and joined by t…

Even though you can have more or less any string, I wonder whether such a structure would really lead to an easier access as with the traditional player something like [image] DavidEsp: Folk+Rock] would appear under "F" for Folk - if I look for "Rock" would this track also appear? If so (wh…

Regarding Idea #1: It seems to me like a Genre and Style representation. As an example, Discogs distinguishes between Genre Classical and Style Neo-Classical for Nils Frahm's latest release . Personally, I always found it a little difficult to describe an album in such detail, because then sometime…

Thank, you, a helpful answer. I would reverse the order, as in French, to be [Rock-Folk] to mean Rock is primary and Folk is secondary. Then string-search for anything starting with "[Rock" would match the Rock genre and all its subgenres. Also it would work (in useful fashion) with autocomplete. …

I do not think that the combinations by themselves or their order are a problem. Here, I think, you have all the liberties already. The problem will be: what do the players make of it? So any suggestion for MP3tag for a more elaborate naming scheme will probably be in vain as the players' function…

Thank you for that input. I will indeed check out Style. I am confused when you say "...having one field with the individual values not composed in a dedicated string is most flexible.". Was the "not" unintentional? I wonder because your example etc, does indeed compose such a string. Or maybe …

[image] DavidEsp: I am confused when you say "...having one field with the individual values not composed in a dedicated string is most flexible.". Was the "not" unintentional? I wonder because your example etc, does indeed compose such a string. Or maybe I am reading it wrongly? The "not" wa…

I am not making any suggestions (here) for any changes to Mp3tag, merely seeking a reasonably orderly system within those liberties. I have seen several other threads where passions have arisen over that subject, but I am one of those awkward people that "thinks differently".

Oops I forgot to double-up the "\" pairs. I meant "\\" of course.

User-defined Hierarchical & Multiple Genres - Ideas

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Perhaps you find more information on delimiters/separators in this thread:

(Spoiler: the + isn't used anywhere - that is considered plain text)

Studying multi-value delimiter conventions - any paradigm/exemplar/defacto file sources?