Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Support for organizing by multiple genres per song.

[John Russell <jjrussell gmail com>]

This is one of those rare cases where Reply-All is the right way to
go.  I'm not an RB developer so I have no idea how hard this is. 
Anyone else know?

John


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jonathon Watney <jon platypus bc ca>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 07:41:06 -0800
Subject: Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Support for organizing by multiple
genres per song.
To: John Russell <jjrussell gmail com>


John,

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 08:11 -0500, John Russell wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 07:22:40 -0500, John Russell <jjrussell gmail com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:32:43 -0800, Jonathon Watney <jon platypus bc ca> wrote:
> > > John,
> > >
> > > Thanks for your reply.
> > >
> > > Stop me if I am wrong but I read your response as: RB cannot support
> > > such a feature because not all (namely id3) tag formats support multiple
> > > genre fields.
> > >
> > > Maybe I was not clear before. Songs would have as many genre references
> > > as genre comment fields, no? And formats that do not support multiple
> > > genre fields would obviously only have one genre reference.
> > >
> > > Or maybe I read your reponse wrong. I just do not see how id3
> > > limitations come into this if RB can intelligently extract tag fields.
> >
> > That is an excellent point.
> >
> > I also found this...
> >
> > http://smartplaylists.com/comments.php?id=107_0_1_0_C
> > http://www.macosxhints.com/comment.php?mode=display&sid=20030409021945127&title=Smartlist+by+location%2C+please!&pid=0
> >
> > These discuss using multiple genres if they are separated by commas in
> > itunes.  HOwever, it says that itunes just sees them as new genres.
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> > Rock
> > Hard Rock
> > Rock, Hard Rock
> >
> > are three separate genres, not a hierarchy like I think you want. The
> > entire concept of the UI would have to be changed as itunes, the ipod
> > and RB all use the drilling down into the genres concept.  You would
> > need to add an arbitrary number of levels to that.  And at what point
> > would you stop drilling down into genres and start seeing artists?
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> > Decend from Rock into Hard Rock.  Now you see all your Hard Rock, but
> > not your other just Rock songs.  Would Hard Rock show up on the same
> > level as just Rock songs?  I would love to have this work somehow as
> > "Classical"  just doesn't cut it for my collection, but I'm not sure
> > it can be jammed into the current tools.
> >
>
> Actually, after thinking about this a little more, I guess that
> sub-genres are not really necessary and all that you are looking for
> is to have a single song be in more than one genre.  Sort of the way
> that v-folders work in evolution where a single piece of mail can be
> in multiple v-folders and you don't have to have multiple copies of
> the same song.  That might be really nice and not require any changes
> to the UI as the song would simply appear in more than one genre.
> Would this work?

That sounds exactly what I want! :-) VFolders is an excellent analogy. I
wish I thought of it.

Now, would this be hard to implement?

Jonathon.