Bug 103642

Summary:	label based organisation or multiple genres
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	Will Hardy <w.hardy>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Will Hardy 2005-04-11 06:48:20 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.2)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

In the tradition of the gmail and picassa label method of organising databases, it would be good to allow uses to specify labels/categories/genres to group music in a many to many fashion. This would promote flexibility and simplicity.

The current handling of genres is only one to many, and playlists are not integrated enough to be used in this way.

This would be used to group music that would be jazz, funk and groove all at the same time. Using the label/category metaphor might encourage users to group their music by loudness, mood, popularity with friends etc.

Bug 96719 proposes such flexibility, but in a very specific fashion which is far more complicated for the user.

Comment 1 Ian Monroe 2005-04-11 07:37:01 UTC

Heh, sounds like someone has been reading mxcl's blog. I think this would be cool, it would be functionality like KimDaBa and Flickr. It would give the users a lot of flexibility.

However, currently its not all that uncommon for users to lose their database. This is bad since folks lose their scores. But this would be simply unacceptable for this sort of tagging. KimDaBa handles this by using a XML format to complement its sqlite database.

Comment 2 Christian Loose 2005-04-11 11:16:50 UTC

At least id3 already offers frames (http://www.id3.org/id3v2.4.0-frames.txt) for much more things than amarok/taglib can currently handle, e.g.

TMOO = mood
TBPM = beats per minute
POPM = popularimeter

And there is also a "User defined text information frame" (TXXX) for everything else that's missing.

Comment 3 Alexandre Oliveira 2005-04-11 17:06:02 UTC

If we think what it requires and how it would work, isn't it a dup of Bug #89314 ?
You mention different porpuses, but it's same thing after all. 
This bug is better worded in my opinion, but the other is much older and already got some votes, so let's leave that one open. 
Add you comments there, please.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89314 ***