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Avoid Scripts/Use Genres?
Authored by: jason mark on Feb 29, '04 09:07:45AM

I've simply added more words to my Genres. For instance I classify some music in the genre "Classic Rock, Folk" and other music in "Rock Heavy Metal".

Then my playlists are built upon the "contains" command. For instance I have a playlist which says "play all music where the gener contains "folk".

Also note, in iTunes you can select multiple tracks at the same time, and hit Command-i and change the Genre (or whatever) of mulitple songs.

These scripts are a *little* more elegant, the Genre field works just fine, there's not need to turn on groups too...



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Avoid Scripts/Use Genres?
Authored by: dwipal on Feb 29, '04 03:45:10PM

Thanks everyone for your comments.
A Few Clarifications (mainly on the Grouping field):

QUE1: Why did you use grouping field ? Its use for something else.

ANS: I was aware that the grouping field is used for some other purpose, which is already present in iTMS currently. It wont be much time when it will be present in iTunes or iPOD. However, i felt it was a pretty vague feature to use it on its own, and for 90% of the songs it was left usused. So i felt like using it.

QUE2: Why not other field (Like Comment or Genre).

ANS: Comment can be used for other purposes, like adding a true comment (like "My girlfriend played this song on her 20th birthday").

iPOD allows us to list songs according to their Genre, so if i put multiple genres in the songs, it still treats all of them as a "Single" genre. So there
are lots of unique genres suddenly created. So adding multiple genres to a song didnt seem very appealing.

Also, i can "edit" multiple songs at the same time to change their group (or comment or genre). However, all the songs are updated and made the same. Old values are overridden.

If i get a requests from a few people, then i can release the version of the script that uses Comment or Genre field instead of Group field.



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Avoid Scripts/Use Genres?
Authored by: dwipal on Feb 29, '04 05:14:07PM

UPDATE: ADDED SCRIPTS FOR ADDING/REMOVING GENRE AND COMMENTS ALSO.

Download the latest version from http://scf.usc.edu/~dwipalde/iTunes

-Dwipal



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