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Feek

14-04-2009, 19:12

I'm sorting out my music and I have The Beatles flagged with two different genres.

British Invasion
60's Psychedelic Pop-Rock

Which would you go with, or suggest another?

Belmit

14-04-2009, 19:16

I'd say more the former than the latter. Not all Beatles stuff was psychadelic... and not quite all 60s either! Frankly I'd put it just under Rock/Pop.

Pheebs

15-04-2009, 08:06

What Belmit said! Before opening the thread I said out aloud "Surely Pop Rock?"

Feek

15-04-2009, 10:07

Rock/Pop is too generic, I hate that tag. If I used it, it'd account for 90% of my music library.

Psymonkee

15-04-2009, 11:20

Classic Rock/Pop :D

OK not helpful :(

Belmit

15-04-2009, 11:25

This is why I don't bother genre-ising any of my music. They're either too general, too specific, or overlap too much.

Psymonkee

15-04-2009, 11:29

Artist\(year) Album\Track Number - Artist - Title ftw :)

LeperousDust

15-04-2009, 13:32

Genre is nice to have but i gave up long ago when i realised i could just use searches linked with last.fm over my music collection works better than any genre you could give yourself :)

Feek

15-04-2009, 18:04

I did experiment with a script for iTunes which queried every track against last.fm and configured the genre depending on what was returned but I found that didn't work very well. I'm now using Tune Upp (http://www.tuneupmedia.com/) which is is doing a really good job of sorting out the library including genre tagging. It's only occasionally that it makes mistakes.