This is as much of a discussion than a specific request.

Previously requested here, (separate with ; ), here (for Subsonic, also separates with ; ), and here (general discussion).

Foobar & some others support using ; to separate within field.

OneTagger supports it but uses subgenres - I'm not fully sure how, though one option is by using a custom separate field; more info here.

Beets has canonical nested genres which is pretty cool.

Already in Strawberry if you tag a track with multiple genres split by ; e.g. "Microhouse;ClownPenis", that track will appear in a search for genre:microhouse and also genre:clownpenis, so that's great already. Similarly smart playlists work for "genre contains" any of multiple semicolon-separated terms.

A downside is that if you group your collection by genre, the full term is shown, not both separate terms, which will cause the genres grouping to become nightmarishly messy.

So I think feature request 1 is to allow Collection views which contain Genre to split tracks by semicolon and display the same track under both (or more) genre dropdowns.

Keen for your thoughts. Cheers!

1. Find an album name with a hyphen/dash in it, e.g. "Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)"
2. Make 2 new playlists with that album in it.
3. From playlist 1, copy that name exactly (I love that you can hit F2 to make editable)
4. In playlist 2, paste that name in the search bar. Nothing is returned until you delete the hyphen/dash.

@jonas any thoughts about this, chap?

@jonas alas. It wouldn't be possible to just modify the Collection > Genre view system to

1. Start with the existing genres
2. Remove all entries with ";" into a separate pool, keep the remainder in the 'main pool'
3. Split those by ";" into unique genres
4. Add that result to the 'main pool' from step 2?

@erdbär great news! Thanks for the info

Hi @jonas any chance of adding BPM and Key as options for columns?

@jonas hi again. Any chance you could look into this? It looks like all that would need to change for Strawberry to allow multiple genres, is for the genres sidebar in Collection to split tracks by semicolon and display the same track under both (or more) genre dropdowns.

@jonas oh nice. In which case - any chance these could be added as column options? Cheers!

@jonas hi again. Any chance the genres listing code could be tweaked to parse semicolon-separated entries into their 2 (or more) constituent genres?

I.e. in the example above: the specific song would be populated to Microhouse, and ClownPenis, but there would be no entry for "Microhouse;Clownpenis"

Cheers!

@jonas any chance you could let us know if there's scope to add BPM and Key? Or whether this would require a ton of work if TagLib doesn't support it?

This has come up various times before (1,2,3,4).

Thanks!

@jonas any thoughts about this, chap?

This is as much of a discussion than a specific request.

Previously requested here, (separate with ; ), here (for Subsonic, also separates with ; ), and here (general discussion).

Foobar & some others support using ; to separate within field.

OneTagger supports it but uses subgenres - I'm not fully sure how, though one option is by using a custom separate field; more info here.

Beets has canonical nested genres which is pretty cool.

Already in Strawberry if you tag a track with multiple genres split by ; e.g. "Microhouse;ClownPenis", that track will appear in a search for genre:microhouse and also genre:clownpenis, so that's great already. Similarly smart playlists work for "genre contains" any of multiple semicolon-separated terms.

A downside is that if you group your collection by genre, the full term is shown, not both separate terms, which will cause the genres grouping to become nightmarishly messy.

So I think feature request 1 is to allow Collection views which contain Genre to split tracks by semicolon and display the same track under both (or more) genre dropdowns.

Keen for your thoughts. Cheers!

@rlkeeney @jonas thanks lads, sorry, only just saw these replies.

Ok so for MP3 ID3v2.4 I shouldn't need to do anything given I have those 4 options ticked, i.e.:

• Once a track has finished playing in Strawberry
  -- if I've rated it in Strawberry, Strawberry should save the rating to the file
  -- Strawberry should increment the playcount +1 and save that to the file
• If I edit a track externally (for reference, I would only be saving other tag fields, never rating nor playcount) Strawberry will re-read the track... so if I listen to a track in Strawberry, rate it, the track ends and the rating and playcount are updated by Strawberry to the track's ID3, then I change the track's comment externally, Strawberry should subsequently re-read the track's info (when it does a full scan?) and see the updated comment, and the rating & playcount should still be correct?

I might need to do some testing on that last one. For some reason it seems I have LOADS of tracks I've definitely played countless times, which have playcount=0, and similarly loads I've played and rated which have blanks for both. In the meantime I've edited various ID3 details for those tracks, but as I understand it, that should never compromise the playcounts and ratings, so it seems something is behaving incorrectly...