music by genre

[GbrNole]

please, please, please someone tell me that i can get this back again via an stv?

it was there in sage version 1.4 and gone when version 2 came about and this is how i organize and play my entire music collection.

any chance this one little music link can be added back?

the whole music experience needs an overhaul especially with beyond media making the push now but genre is my biggest thing at this point with a couple of more advanced (but not terribly advanced) vizualizations being nice too. (i tend to prefer the bars ans scales type vizuals)

anyway if i could get music by genre back and have that random play i'd be truly thankful.

on a similar note - if this is possible by .stv then i would presume that the same music by genre availability would be available using a media mvp too?

thanks, nick.

[mlbdude]

Music by Genre is possible, but visualizations are not. Neither is playing anything other than MP3. You just need to find somone working on STV's that also wants Genre .

[jan smit]

How about putting this into SageMC, I would love that.

[GbrNole]

mp3 is all i ever rip so that's no problem. vizualizations aren't nearly as important as genre, to me.

you know there's this pvr junkie on the sageTV forums who makes these freakin awesome stv's and is the only thing keeping me from jumping to mce 2005 (curses the devil, bill!!!) it would be awesome if this dude could add genre's to his already fantastic piece of work....

i'll mail ya a beer!

[mlbdude]

I looked into doing it but the way Sage stores the data it would be cumbersome. However, it will happen at some point. I am hoping somone else does it so I can cut and paste .

[GbrNole]

well dang!

if some ingenious fellow can help out here i'd be extremely appreciative as would my wife.

alternatively a plugin for WMP would work quite nicely too

[jan smit]

I looked into doing it but the way Sage stores the data it would be cumbersome. However, it will happen at some point. I am hoping somone else does it so I can cut and paste

I'm hoping with you and appreciate the enormous amount of work you're already doing.

jan

[pvr599]

I'm sure it's something I missed somewhere, but I'm having a problem viewing music by genre in My Music.

I'm using SageTV v5 & SageMC 6.6. Per the recommendation of another poster I'm using MediaMonkey for the tags which is very cool by the way.

When I try to view by genres in My Music, well for example, I have a bunch of songs that are "Alternative Rock", but that Genre doesn't show up.

Is there something I'm doing wrong in the tags? Do they have to be ID3v1 or 2 specifically?

Thanks for the help.

[mlbdude]

Originally Posted by pvr599

Do they have to be ID3v1 or 2 specifically?

Thanks for the help.

Only ID3V1 are in there now.

The following genres is defined in ID3v1

0.Blues
1.Classic Rock
2.Country
3.Dance
4.Disco
5.Funk
6.Grunge
7.Hip-Hop
8.Jazz
9.Metal
10.New Age
11.Oldies
12.Other
13.Pop
14.R&B
15.Rap
16.Reggae
17.Rock
18.Techno
19.Industrial
20.Alternative
21.Ska
22.Death Metal
23.Pranks
24.Soundtrack
25.Euro-Techno
26.Ambient
27.Trip-Hop
28.Vocal
29.Jazz+Funk
30.Fusion
31.Trance
32.Classical
33.Instrumental
34.Acid
35.House
36.Game
37.Sound Clip
38.Gospel
39.Noise
40.AlternRock
41.Bass
42.Soul
43.Punk
44.Space
45.Meditative
46.Instrumental Pop
47.Instrumental Rock
48.Ethnic
49.Gothic
50.Darkwave
51.Techno-Industrial
52.Electronic
53.Pop-Folk
54.Eurodance
55.Dream
56.Southern Rock
57.Comedy
58.Cult
59.Gangsta
60.Top 40
61.Christian Rap
62.Pop/Funk
63.Jungle
64.Native American
65.Cabaret
66.New Wave
67.Psychadelic
68.Rave
69.Showtunes
70.Trailer
71.Lo-Fi
72.Tribal
73.Acid Punk
74.Acid Jazz
75.Polka
76.Retro
77.Musical
78.Rock & Roll
79.Hard Rock

[pvr599]

Thanks mlbdude,
I changed all the Alternative Rock genres to Alternative and changed the option from "Use ID3v1 and ID3v2" tags to ID3v1 only.

I went into My Music and Rescanned Import Folder. I don't know if that would have helped or not so I just did it anyways.

Still no Alternative genre.

Am I still doing something wrong?

Edit: Is there a reason they are all numbered?