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thniels
Trending Lyricist I
January 3, 2013

Tagging with multiple genres

  • January 3, 2013
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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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    sakellariadis
    Lyricist III
    January 24, 2016
    I've spent a LOT more money on my music library than my 5 Sonos components, including my latest addition, the Playbar; But if Sonos can't support basic concepts like semicolons for tagging pieces with multiple genres, it makes you wonder if it's time to replace the sound delivery system - after all, that's just a commodity item and there are plenty of good competitors on the market these days.

    Come on, Sonos! This is not that hard a software problem to solve. If you won't do it yourselves, open source the software and we'll do it for you!
      MikkelTJ
      Lyricist I
      April 23, 2016
      Please implement this feature!
      arex2551
      Lyricist I
      June 19, 2016
      LOL... 3 Years and nothing?
      Thats why I used Squeezeboxes...
      trying Sonos as a new solution, but there are so many threads like this one 😕
      Stuart_W
      Stuart_W
      World-Class Superstar
      June 19, 2016
      LOL... 3 Years and nothing?
      Thats why I used Squeezeboxes...
      trying Sonos as a new solution, but there are so many threads like this one :-/

      It's because a) it's an active forum. 😎 there are some very old threads. c) there is a very large user base

      I've been an active user of this forum for at least a year and have NEVER seen this request which is up there with giving So so a teas maid functionality.
      Arc + Sub (Gen 1) + 2 x Play 1/ Stereo Play 3s/ Era 100 Stereo in Kitchen, One Stereo in Bedroom, Play 1 stereo pair in Study, Play 1in Bathroom, Sonos Move 2
      Darryl Gittins
      Trending Lyricist I
      September 28, 2017
      Please please, add multiple genres!! Mediamonkey does it so why not Sonos? Maybe MediaMonkey needs to develop a Sonos App?
        Incognitos
        Lyricist I
        January 1, 2018
        some streamer accept multiple genres delimited by \\ others by ; etc.
        e.g. Logitech Mediaplayer / SqueezeBox takes \\

        the best solution should be a manual definition of a delimiter as nobody wants to re-tag 10,0000s of files...
          lguapo
          Lyricist I
          February 11, 2018
          Seriously no response from Sonos on this one after so many years? Does Sonos not look at these boards or is this a deliberate decision to focus only on subscription services like Spotify? Either way not good.
          +1 for delimiter with ID3 tags. Especially for genre. Agree this is s a bug on a basic functionality and not an enhancement.
          lguapo
          Lyricist I
          February 11, 2018
          Naturally above comment applies to FLAC Tag as well.
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