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thniels
Trending Lyricist I
Jan 3, 2013 9:06 AM UTC

Tagging with multiple genres

When tagging music with genre, it should be possible to use more than one and instead have multiple genres. For example: Benjamin Grosvenor's Rhapsody in Blue is not just "classical". It is "classical" and "piano" and "piano concerts" and "romantic" and "british". Rammstein's Herzeleid is not just "rock" but also "industrial metal" and "neue deutsche härte" and "german". Mike Oldfield's Exposed is not just "pop" but also "guitar" and "live" and "symphonic rock" and "orchestral". It is extremely difficult to shoehorn music into genres as it is, keeping it organised with only one genre is downright impossible. Some cross-over genres are even so eclectic that setting just one genre is unfeasible, e.g. Rodrigo y Gabriela or Roger Greenawalt and David Barratt's Beatles on Ukulele project. I am aware that using a UPnP server remedies this but since UPnP support is rudimentary at best (not mentioning having to have a server running), this is not a viable solution.
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    Sauron Mordor
    Lyricist I
    Jan 3, 2013 11:47 PM UTC
    +1 Trying to organize/locate classical music without using a 'multi-value' genre-tag is a real challenge - particularly because other tags such as 'conductor' are not present, -- or I can't figure out how to access them via the controller app being a newbie to Sonos.
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      roffe
      Lyricist I
      May 30, 2013 8:13 AM UTC
      I agree with this wish. I would like Sonos to add possibility to use several tags for all categories. I would also recommend functionality to build my own hierarchy of tags (please look at how eg Adobe Lightroom lets you tag your photos). I do not think this is just a issue for classical music - also me who mainly play rock and blues would like to be able to refine and add several tags for eg genre for a lot of my music. Please make this possible
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        smilek
        Contributor I
        Jun 20, 2013 12:31 AM UTC
        This is a feature that should have been implemented by now. We all pay enough (for me $3000+) to Sonos that this kind of feature should have already been implemented.
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          f9c13427
          Lyricist I
          Apr 5, 2014 10:06 AM UTC
          A HUGE +1! Please Sonos, implement a feature to handle several genres listed in the genre tag of an mp3...
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            Philip_21
            Lyricist I
            Jun 17, 2014 5:06 PM UTC
            I agree.  This feature should be put on a fast track for the next Sonos update.
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              Adam_44
              Contributor I
              Jun 20, 2014 3:11 PM UTC
              It is a convention that if there is more than one genre listed in the metadata, that they are separated by a semi-colon (;). Other software correctly lists each genre independently so that a genre of “Pop; Rock” shows the song under the Pop genre and the Rock genre. Instead, the Sonos controller, incorrectly creates categories of Pop for songs that only list Pop, Rock for songs that only list Rock and another category of “Pop/Rock” for the prior example. In fact, songs categorized as “Rock; Pop” are in a fourth category. It gets worse for songs that have multiple categories, as described above. This makes the genre feature useless as you have to know which permutation to search under.

              Sonos - when are you going to fix this?
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                Rafal
                Lyricist I
                Sep 10, 2014 5:17 PM UTC
                Sonos, please add multiple genre support, thanks.
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                  49733
                  Lyricist II
                  Oct 30, 2014 9:22 PM UTC
                  The distinct lack of response from sonos on this is not very promising. Even a sense that they are trying to sort this would be appreciated.
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                    slapz
                    Contributor I
                    Dec 15, 2014 12:22 PM UTC
                    After some googling I found some threads with the same question on the sonos forums. Some of these came from 2008 and 1 was even started in 2007. They all request multiple genre support. What I could not find however was a proper response from Sonos. I am getting more and more irritated with sonos. In the first place because their product is not as perfect as they make it believe and in the second place because they seem to lack the decency to give any response to this issue. Appearently people have been asking this question for 7 years and in those 7 years nevet got a proper awnser (And if for some reason multiple genre tagging is not possible, is it that hard to leave a quick message to your loyal users explaining why it is not possible?)
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                      49733
                      Lyricist II
                      Dec 15, 2014 2:29 PM UTC
                      For those following this topic, last month I got in touch with Sonos CEO John MacFarlane on Twitter (@JohnLMacFarlane) about this issue. He told me he would 'pass it on'. It might be worth others contacting him to reinforce the fact that this is an important issue for Sonos users.
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