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1) How do you deal with songs that have multiple genres? In "Singles" I sometimes copy individual MP3's into both Rock and Metal. It comes up less often than

1) How do you deal with songs that have multiple genres? In "Singles" I sometimes copy individual MP3's into both Rock and Metal. It comes up less often than you'd think. 2) how do you deal with album that has songs of varying styles? I just pick the one genre that makes the most sense. As long as I know, or can quickly find which genre an artist is in, that's what matters. How long does it really take to check if I put an AC/DC album in Rock, or Metal? 3) Compilations I either place it in /Albums/Soundtracks (if it's a soundtrack), or make a "Various Artists" directory in /Albums/Electronic or whichever genre makes sense. Almost all of my compilations are dance or electronic music. 4) I don't understand how you handle singles.... To me it looks like your singles folder is intended for random songs, not to handle actual CDS/CDM style singles I actually removed most of the EP's and CDS rips from my MP3 collection because I found I never listened to them. I would take the individual MP3's that I really liked and placed those into my /Singles/ directories. Otherwise I could treat them just like I do my Albums.

adamzochowski 14y ago
I guess I enjoy putting more tags into collection. I try to fit few from last.fm , and few that came with the tagging. So a single track can have multiple tags (I think I average 10 tags per track). It is normal to have things like like 'Symphonic' and 'Rock' and '80s' and 'Krautrock' as separate tags on one song. Or in case of some electronica (like ones found at http://ektoplasm.com http://ektoplasm.com ): 'IDM', 'downtempo', 'goa', 'psy-dub'. For compilations I try to keep track of who made compilation, especially if it is a mix by a DJ. I do have many that are just VAs too. In the end, I have three types of music plays: - everything by an artist -- this is why I keep CDS / CDM / EP to have remixes, and to track them with covers, etc - specific album -- this works great for movie scores, or albums that have songs tailored to go one to another (Jean Michelle Jarre work from 70s and 80s is awesome in this) - party mode -- something like pandora -- last.fm is queried about tracks similar to current one (and past one), and sets up playlist of similar songs to play. See http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=83915 http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=83915

adamzochowski 14y ago

I guess I enjoy putting more tags into collection. I try to fit few from last.fm , and few that came with the tagging. So a single track can have multiple tags (I think I average 10 tags per track). It is normal to have things like like 'Symphonic' and 'Rock' and '80s' and 'Krautrock' as separate tags on one song. Or in case of some electronica (like ones found at http://ektoplasm.com http://ektoplasm.com ): 'IDM', 'downtempo', 'goa', 'psy-dub'. For compilations I try to keep track of who made compilation, especially if it is a mix by a DJ. I do have many that are just VAs too. In the end, I have three types of music plays: - everything by an artist -- this is why I keep CDS / CDM / EP to have remixes, and to track them with covers, etc - specific album -- this works great for movie scores, or albums that have songs tailored to go one to another (Jean Michelle Jarre work from 70s and 80s is awesome in this) - party mode -- something like pandora -- last.fm is queried about tracks similar to current one (and past one), and sets up playlist of similar songs to play. See http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=83915 http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=83915