Music Genre Metadata Field

[Joe Pittman]

Over the last 7 years I have completely re-ripped my CD collections three time. And all during that time, I have refined and edited the metadata fields and cover art. The objective was to get my digital music collection so that it works well with different servers and streamers that I am using.

One of the major metadata fields has been "Genre". Without looking closely at this field, the total number of genres was getting out of hand. It was difficult to find music, especially with my large and growing collection.

When doing research on music genres, there is a large number of genres and subgenres. So what I have done is boil them down to the fewest number that sort-of works for me. When I rip CD's or obtain music downloads, I edit the metadata to use/assign my choice of genre to be consistent. I am still thinking of breaking down Rock, Classical and Jazz into sub genres because they are so huge but have not done that yet. This is a work in progress. Following is my current list. What is your list and what are your thoughts?

MY LIST OF MUSIC GENRES

1. A Cappella
2. Blues
3. Celtic
4. Christmas
5. Classical
6. Country
7. Demo
8. Easy Listening
9. Electronica
10. Female Vocal
11. Gospel
12. Hip-Hop
13. Jazz
14. Latin
15. New Age
16. Opera
17. Pop
18. R&B
19. Reggae
20. Rock
21. Folk
22. Soundtrack
23. Test
24. Vocal
25. World

[Alrainbow]

Holy cow do you have time lol. You do come accros as someone who is very organized we are at the opposite end of the universe while indonfeelnwhst you have done is pretty important in finding your music. I own about 12 TB on 5 nas drives
I am so disorganized I find stuff I bought and forgot while looking for something else lol.
May I ask what format do you use for pcm , I use flac no Comp
i find meta data is read from all players whike wave some don't. I always read wav is better due to its use of meta data and not interfering in play back. I never do hear any difference of the two formats.

[Joe Pittman]

Mostly Flac with no compression.

[Alrainbow]

I use j river and load a library then look from my iPad
but mostly load 20 or so albums on an internal drive inside my server and pick from there in j remote

[Joe Pittman]

When using JRMC on a PC, I like using J Remote on the iPad.

[Alrainbow]

Yes very cool feature. I keep a monitor on the server but control from iPad or iPhone.
Same for tidal on the msb umt plus

[Dr.Ears]

Are you using an iPad or iPhone to control a PC based server? Pretty cool, if that works. Why do you need a monitor?

[Johnny Vinyl]

Rock is really tough to break down as there are so many sub-genres. See Wikipedia's List of Rock Genres

[JCOConnell]

Rock is really tough to break down as there are so many sub-genres. See Wikipedia's List of Rock Genres

damn, they really split it up, don't they?

[Per Sundell]

Metadata is important but can be an obstacle at the same time.
It´s easy to classify something but harder to remember what you classified it as.
As I my dayjob is as a museum curator i struggle with this type of questions every day.
The trick is trying to be consistent! (Or rather it´s A trick.)

[Johnny Vinyl]

Then there is the inconsistency of how an album is categorised on various info, label, review, dealer/retailer sites.

[JCOConnell]

one man's punk is another man's new wave

[Per Sundell]

Well put!