tag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:/discussions/suggestions/2527-better-genre-support-and-genre-browsingbeaTunes: Discussion 2017-07-28T08:38:54Ztag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/429157192017-07-06T17:09:28Z2017-07-06T17:52:52ZBetter genre support and genre browsing<div><p>I would like to see support for nested genres and a genre browser that supports such a genre tree. Currently I use this formatting to achieve a workaround in iTunes:</p>
<p>Rock: Metal<br>
Rock: Grunge<br>
Rock: Progressive: Neo-Prog<br>
Rock: Progressive: New Prog<br>
Pop: New Wave<br>
Pop: Latin Pop<br>
...</p>
<p>Doscogs provides a hierarchy depth of 2 (genre and style) but on many albums they have also multiple styles. So another cool feature could be multiple genres, maybe separated by semicolon (or other characters): "Electronic: Minimal; Electronic: Tech House".</p>
<p>There are players like MediaMonkey or Foobar2000 which support multiple genres.</p></div>Tekltag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/429157192017-07-28T08:38:53Z2017-07-28T08:38:53ZBetter genre support and genre browsing<div><p>Hey there,</p>
<p>sorry for the very late reply.</p>
<p>I can see how this is desirable. To a degree beaTunes 5 already supports genre hierarchies, as it has a built-in genre graph, which is used for matching and playlist building. Also, beaTunes 5 displays a top genre next to the actual genre name. E.g. <code>Alternative & Punk (Rock)</code>. The label here is <code>Alternative & Punk</code>, the hint <code>(Rock)</code> is added by beaTunes. But at this point you cannot search for this, which is what you want, if I understand you correctly.</p>
<p>I'll add an entry to the todo list, but given that v5 was just released, it will take a long time until I can add new features.</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendrik