Bug#425113: rhythmbox: Genre nearly useless for Jamendo plugin

[Sven Arvidsson]

forwarded 425113 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310154
thanks

On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 10:22 +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
> The Jamendo genre field seems to be completely free-form for the album
> author, so in the Genre section of Rhythmbox, it now shows:
> 
> "Electro-Dub"
> "Electro-dub"
> "Electro Dub"
> "Electro-dub " (Yes, that's an extra space)
> "électro-dub"
> 
> for a total of 1748 genres, with many doubles like this. Most genres have
> only one artist in it (there are 2178 artists, or about 1.25 artists per
> genre).
> 
> It would already help a lot if:
> - Whitespace was normalized
> - Case was ignored
> - Characters like - and , would be treated as space.
> This would reduce the list above to two.
> 
> OTOH, it seems the Jamendo site doesn't do very much with the genre, but
> instead uses tags for organizing the albums.
> 
> Maybe the Jamendo plugin should use the tags instead of the genre?

Hi,

I very much agree, the genre field is basically useless, especially so
for Jamendo and similar places. The good news is that Rhythmbox have the
basics for tags, so I hope it will be used in the future.

In the mean time, I have marked this bug as forwarded to the upstream
developers, you may wish to subscribe here,
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310154

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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