GeilerHeinz Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 If the announced "custom categories/sorting package" is released someday, will I be able to introduce "style" as an additional category one level below genre category? Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 Genre tags do not have sub-categories as a general rule. Folders can though, is that what you mean? Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeilerHeinz Posted April 4, 2020 Author Share Posted April 4, 2020 At the moment there isn't any way to display "style" as sub-category to genre category in Poweramp apart from using folder hierarchy with respectively adjusted folders. But I could imagine/I am hoping that this (inserting of a new category and user-defined sorting) should be enabled after the release of the "custom categories/sorting package" which Max MP announced. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 Genre is a single item though (picked up from the file's ID3 tags), the tag spec does not provide for any sub-categories to sort by. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeilerHeinz Posted April 4, 2020 Author Share Posted April 4, 2020 Sure, I understand. But wouldn't it be possible to add an additional tag "style" to my files, which I then use as sub-genre? For example: Genre=Classical, Style=Chamber music; Genre=Electronic, Style=Downtempo; etc. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 Not and remain within the ID3 spec for file tagging. In the original ID3 spec, Genres were only available as a single byte of data which referred to a simple pre-defined list of words (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3). More recent implementations (such as ID3v2.3 or ID3v2.4) allow for free-format text, and even for multiple versions of the same tag (so you could assign two different genre tags for one song for example, such as "Electronic" and "Pop"), but there is no concept of a genre 'tree' with sub-divisions within the spec. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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