I agree - tagging is significantly better than genres. I can't think of anything genres do that tags couldn't do better. Also, as far as I understand it, most modern metadata, mp3 included, would allow you to save your tags in the file itself without violating the standard.
-Ender On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 22:12 +0100, Benjamin Bach wrote: > Dear devs, > > You're all familiar with tags. You type them in, separated by commas > and press enter. Then some nice database handles all the > cross-referencing. > > I cannot unify music into one genre, and I don't like the genre > browser. > > Using tags instead of genres gives you the following: > * Freedom > * Multiplicity > * Ease > It's even backwards compatible! Old genres can simply be auto-created > as tags. And the old genre-browser can become a tag browser. BUT! I'd > much prefer to have tags implemented directly in the GUI as an > omnipresent field, different from the browser view, and more akin the > hyperlinks on blogs. Personally, I'd like to tag both songs (eg. > according to mood), artists and albums. > > Ideas: > * Import tags from last.fm. I wouldn't like it myself, but it > would instantly give the user a nice taste of what category > his/her music is in. > * Shuffling by tag > * Tag cloud view > Please do share your thoughts. This is suitable as a plugin, that I > might do... and not meant as a lazy "please implement this feature". > > all the best, > Benjamin Bach > http://www.overtag.dk > _______________________________________________ > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
