Bug#442355: Support for multiple genre tags

[Sven Arvidsson]

forwarded 442355 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123446
thanks

On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 14:43 +0200, Erich Schubert wrote:
> Rhythmbox doesn't seem to support multiple genre fields. This works very well with ID3v2 and Ogg Vorbis, though.
> And it's very useful in cases where a song is hard to classify or when you want to avoid creating thousands of genres.
> For example, it makes a lot of sense to tag a song as both "Big-Band" and "Swing", as opposed to Swing which is not played by a big band, or a big band playing different music styles.
> Also if you do sub-classification this is useful, e.g. for tagging songs as "Neo-Swing", "Retro Swing" and "Swing", if they are modern swing, imitating the old swing styles.
> That way they can still be found when filtering by genre "Swing".
> 
> This is related to #233990

Hi,

I agree, this sounds very useful. 

Bug #233990 is forwarded to upstream bug #123446 which seems to track
handling of multiple fields of all types, not only artist. I'm setting
this request to track the same bug.

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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