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Thanks for your answers :) I might check out foobar one day soon and see how I like it.

I try to keep a high level of quality with my collection in the way I tag and organize files and so on, but I have to admit that genres are a bit of a problem. They're not very well defined and the durabasses who came up with file tags only have 1 space for genre. It would make so much more sense to allow for more genre tags so that you could have supergenre and subgenres f.ex per file. Example, a file could be tagged as "Jazz" (supergenre) and "Big Band" (subgenre). Then you could sort stuff by supergenres and then subgenres in a hierarchy for example.

With the way it is now, genre tags in my collection is mostly just a badly structured mess. I don't know how many genres are in there. I think the best thing for me to do would be to come up with a list of supergenres and try to sort everything by those.
 
Holy shit, I'm downloading foobar now and I want it to be LIKE THIS! Really nice job there man.

Mediamonkey was kind of iffy for me. It might just have been my failure of technical mastery, but files kept getting lost, and the layout didn't actually seem that much better than iTunes.
 
I like MediaMonkey, but I couldn't figure out how to get it to scrobble with last.fm. Anyone know how? Is there some supplemental thing I can download to make it work?
 
My music player is pretty simple. WMP... It plays music. Imagine that!
Pic is of my top monitor:

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This applies to any media player really, but couldn't you just tag things genre wise as....

f.e.
arabum 1 - Jazz/Big Band
arabum 2 - Jazz/Big Band
arabum 3 - Jazz/Big Band
arabum 4 - Jazz/Big Band
arabum 5 - Jazz/nu-jazz
arabum 6 - Jazz/nu-jazz
arabum 7 - Jazz/nu-jazz

This would just be organised alphabetically, and have the exact same effect as you would want, no?

I use genres loosely, and mainly because its just plain easy.
 
I decided to give Foobar a try lately. At the moment it looks like this

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Gonna start changing it around a bit more, when i figure out how to put panels on the right.
 
Rocketdock is awesome. I love my roots to be all in one place, and when I'm looking for something specific, I know exactly which icon to activate. One click business. Even got all my resulting pop up folders situated where none could overlap if I opened several folders. lol... probably going overboard, but it really does save a lot of time and frustration having things organized.
 
So, an update here .. I started on this like an hour ago and just finished. Well, finished for today!

My foobar was getting a bit heavy and I want a liter version which is still not lite but not quite as demanding as the other one I've made. My plan is actually to make a few different ones and have several installs on this external HD I'm gonna buy soon which I'll keep my music on. Anyways, what I've made the last hour (copying and pasting a lot from the old of course) is this ..

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The main way I access my library is actually by searching and the search bar is in the top right corner. Just above the playlist area, I have tabs which shows different things, like mixed artists compilations or soundtracks.

At the bottom, you have some fairly simple things. A progress bar on the left, buttons in the middle and a rather large volume slider on the right.

Haven't tested it much so still not sure how I like it yet, but I think it'll be good. :p:
 
The idea I had in mind was that a media player should be able to do something like this, expanding on your own example :

  • Genres :
    • Jazz
      • Big Band
        • Album 1
        • Album 2
          • Song 1
          • Song 7 (ex. the genre only applies to a couple of the songs on the album)
        • Album 3
        • Album 4
      • Nu-jazz
        • Album 5
        • Album 6
        • Album 7

Since this information is not supported by the tags I know, I'm guessing this is not really something media players can do, but I like things being organized and would like to see something like this - at least support for it. As for my own collection and what to do with it, yeah - I was basically thinking of something like you presented.

What I would like to do first is come up with a set of super-genres like jazz that can describe all the music I have in my library.
 
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