Improved genre support

[Nutul]

As I understand it, should be something in the lines of:
Genre: Jazz
Style: Vocal
For Vocal Jazz

or

Genre: Jazz
Style: Modern
For (you guessed right) Modern Jazz

The question is: how do we handle that if MPD does not parse/index/present the "Style" (pseudo) tag...?

Furthermore... with the - nowadays - enhanced search engine, cannot we just use it to simulate what genre + style is supposed to do? (I believe that genre + style is aimed at one thing: cleaner and shorter GENRE collection)
Filtering on GENRE with Jazz * could just get all Jazz "styles", while Vocal Jazz could just get that specific one...
(I mean, with the perl reg-ex patterns, that is)

Or am I completely wrong...?
I find the topic interesting, somehow.

[TamedShrew]

Hi,
I've not read the entire thread, so not sure if this has been answered.

I've got multiple genres working with moOde. I did this by setting the Genre field with double backslashes separating the genres. See screen shots attached.

[Nutul]

Hi,
I've not read the entire thread, so not sure if this has been answered.

I've got multiple genres working with moOde. I did this by setting the Genre field with double backslashes separating the genres. See screen shots attached.

The thing depends entirely on the software used to tag the music files... in the FLAC vorbisComment tag method there is no such thing as a double-slash; OTOH vorbisComment allows for as many GENRE tags as you like. This is probably what your software of choice is doing: you use a unified (within the software itself...) syntax, and it will act accordingly, depending on what tag substrate is adequate to the file-type (e.g. Id3v2 for .mp3, vorbisComment for Flac, etc. etc.).