MortTheBeast Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 How do you all figure out the genre for an artist? Do you maybe use a website to search for artist and genre? There are so many genres it makes my head spin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 To be honest, I don't really bother. So many artists release tracks (even within one album) which fall into wildly different musical categories that I just tend to stick with very general genres such as Rock, Pop, Folk/Country, Soundtrack, Spoken Word, etc. These days you can make your own terms up too, you are not restricted to a predefined list like you used to be with ID3v1 tags. So rather like EQ settings, just categorise your music the way that suits you. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickIst Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 6 hours ago, MortTheBeast said: How do you all figure out the genre for an artist? Do you maybe use a website to search for artist and genre? There are so many genres it makes my head spin. Generally I use Wikipedia if there are references to some sources (e.g interview. reviews) stating that. But mainly I tag it with the precision to the album, excepting interludes or intros who sometimes is just a speech or sfx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MortTheBeast Posted January 14, 2019 Author Share Posted January 14, 2019 My problem is I'm OCD and things have to be spot on. I realize a lot of artists can fall under multiple genres, but I'm trying to decide which genre out of 50 that might be attached to an artist I should pick to make it easier when sorting by genre. Maybe keep it simple like: Oldies Classic Rock Rock Hard Rock Metal Heavy Metal Rap Hip-Hop Am I missing anything? (shrugs shoulders) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 As I said before, it's very much up to you. Even within one album there can be wildly different styles of music. Perhaps using several tags per track might help? So for example something like "Chariots of Fire" would need to be at least Soundtrack ; Electronic ; Instrumental. (There, that's three new categories not on your list already ) Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MortTheBeast Posted January 14, 2019 Author Share Posted January 14, 2019 Yea for me I would probably just go with Soundtrack. Trying to go with the "less is better" approach. 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickIst Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 8 hours ago, MortTheBeast said: Classic Rock Rock Hard Rock Metal Heavy Metal Some of these could be combined, especially the last one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Min Sik Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 I fixed, turned them off! I need blues and blues-rock but cant see the point as i use folder based mainly. Good luck with the labeling and sorting but. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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