[SOLVED] Multiple Genres Bug?

[Tim Curtis]

@Tim Curtis
The Library in moOde is designed assuming there is only one occurrence of a given tag.

Why? Most Media servers can deal with multiple genre values, even rather old ones like Twonky which I ran for a long time, but also Plex and Emby.
Also mpd works perfectly as you can prove with mpc. (And I thought the Moode player is using mpd as library under the hood and is working as an mpd client?)

This is the most common tagging scheme.

Inventing a decent genre categories scheme and tagging an existing library with a quite huge number of albums ist a big effort which probably a lot of people rather avoid.
The tags in tracks provided by record labels are often rubbish. In pop music with hundreds of flavors (and each week a new one) it makes TMHO little sense to spend the effort of genre tagging. Also, in the past, you could only select a value from an otherwise fixed list of genres. This alltogether probably established a (bad) habit what one might call a commen practice.

1. Why the single Genre scheme? Because, at least based on the lack of Forum posts complaining about it, it appears to be working just fine for moOde users.

2. The Library in moOde does not use on-demand MPD search queries to generate the data, it's based on a server-side filtering routine that generates a Genre/Artist/Album/Track array thats loaded entirely into the Browser's memory. This allows Tag and Album view to avoid round trips to the server to get data and as a result be very responsive for most collections.

3. My experience has been that (a) the top ripping and tagging utilities do a good job, and (b) most audio enthusiasts soend a lot of time tagging their collections.

If there is more demand for breaking out multiple genres then I'd add it to the TODO list.