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Recently, while adjusting some song genres in eJukebox something occured to me. Often the song genre field is used as kind of a keyword to describe the type or mood of the song. Some of us get creative with ID3v2 tags and sort of invent our own super-descriptive genres, and others stick strictly to established genres like "Rock" or "R&B" or "Classical". Even when we DO settle on a genre, often songs cross borders and more than one applies. So again, either we invent some kind of new cross polinated genre, or we settle. I like the way Allmusic.com handles this problem, and I think it can be adapted to eJ. IN their music listings, they have two seperate fields for each artist and/or album. One for Genre (they allow mutiple, even though ID3 tags don't) and one for what they call "tones" (Brooding, Cerebral, Literate, Sugary, Energetic, Sexy, Fun, Intense, etc., are examples). Because ID3v2 really only still allows ONE genre, I suggest that eJ create a second field, tucked away in some supplemental place, that stores whatever selection of keywords we want to apply to a song. The keywords can be a free-form field where as many extra genre descriptions OR "Tone" mood descriptions as you want can be added. Then either the search engine or the Custom Mode can be used to group songs in more complex, and yet more relevant ways. You can arbitrarily declare a song to be "Happy" and "Sexy" both and arrange to play only the "Happy" ones or the "Sexy" ones--or both--with very little effort. Reactions? If this is technically feasible I can't see a downside. I mean people can always choose NOT to use it. It shouldn't inflate the MP3 file that much--especially if some limits are placed on it (a character legnth or a maximum number of keywords).
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