Re: Easy Tag Genre List

[Budgie <ajebay errichel co uk>]

On 27/05/13 12:00, David King wrote:
> Hi Charles
>
> Please see my replies below.
>
> On 2013-05-27 11:22, Charles Taylor <howlshigh gmail com> wrote:
> > I have been a religious user of Easy Tag for 2-3 years and have
> > finally got
> > annoyed with the lack of attention to the Genre list, which is now
> > listing
> > Styles Of Genre. It's a shame to see people without understanding of the
> > difference between a Genre and Style of Genre.
>
> The list of genres comes from the original ID3 (version 1) tagging
> scheme, which was an informal standard that was extended by a variety of
> applications. The initial ID3 scheme consisted of 80 genres, and the
> most commonly-accepted genre list for ID3 contains around 126 genres:
>
> http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/Recommendations/genre_codes.htm
>
> Recent tagging schemes use a free-form genre field, so that any text may
> be used for the genre, as well as allowing multiple genres.
>
> You should not take the list as an indicator of the level of
> understanding of the author, but merely as a reflection of the tagging
> scheme used in EasyTAG and many other applications.
>
> > A music genre is a conventional category that identifies pieces of
> > music as
> > belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. It is to be
> > distinguished from musical form and musical style, although in practice
> > these terms are sometimes used interchangeably.
>
> This paragraph is the introduction to a Wikipedia article:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_genre
>
> The article goes on to discuss that:
>
> “these classifications are often arbitrary and controversial, and some
> genres may overlap.”
>
> Given the imprecision of genres, I think it is unreasonable to impose a
> strict classification scheme.
>
> > Here are some examples.
> > Thrash Metal is a style of the Rock genre crossed with the Electronic
> > genre.
> > Acid Jazz is a style of the Jazz genre, and in some cases, crossed
> > with the
> > Electronic genre.
> > Dance is a style of the Electronic genre.
> >
> > In truth the Genre list should be small and contain only recognised
> > Genre's
> > as listed here.
> >
> > Blues
> > Brass & Military
> > Children's
> > Classical
> > Electronic
> > Folk
> > Funk / Soul
> > Hip Hop
> > Jazz
> > Latin
> > Non-Music
> > Pop
> > Reggae
> > Rock
> > Stage & Screen
> > World & Country
>
> It is not currently possible to restrict the genre to a user-defined set
> with EasyTAG. It could be added, but it is not a feature that I am
> interested in working on at the moment.
>
>
>
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Hi,
Please leave it as is.  I use the ability to write my own genres as a 
way to simplify searching my classical collection.  Not qualified to 
discuss the taxonomy of music but I consider it unhelpful and simplistic 
to classify the whole of my small collection as genre "classical" I use, 
inter alia; opera, early, liturgical, oratorio, choral etc. etc. in the 
genre field.  Served by minimserver on NAS this makes searching much 
easier.