Is there anyway to tag specific songs as christmas songs? For example, River by Joni Mitchel?
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You could go to the recording or work and tag them from the sidebar, if thatâs what you have in mind 
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Are the tags shared or just for me?
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kind of both, actually. Iâll demonstrate with an example.
Iâve tagged several artists with âawesomenameâ, including NÇ˝nøÄĂżbbĹrÄ VbĂŤĹĹÄŚĹlĂśkäävsĹŚ (Nanocyborg Uberholocaust). however, if you look at the tags page for the artist, you donât see awesomename. thatâs because someone downvoted my tag. I can still see it when I look at the artist though
also, if youâre pulling your tags using an external program, (for example, genre tags in Picard), Iâm 98% sure it will pull all your tags, including any that others have downvoted
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Thanks for the example. I used it to try to accomplish my question⌠Hereâs an updateâŚ
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christmas-music is an official genre and lots of people are using it (Tag âchristmas musicâ - MusicBrainz) so, I used that to add a tag to Joni Mitchell, River (https://musicbrainz.org/recording/760828c4-c062-4667-94c6-0d358c1c768c)
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Note that River is tagged firstly on the listed under three genres: folk, christmas-music and pop.
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I used the latest version of Picard 2.8.5 on my mp3 and flac versions of the albums.
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I clustered the files and looked up the release on Musicbrainz. Found the specific release (https://musicbrainz.org/release/a575174c-36c5-4ba5-8f34-1d752815fd99).
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Selecting track 8, River⌠the genres shown are âContemporary Folk;Folk;Folk Rock;Pop;Singer-Songwriterâ
Use MB Genres is turned on, minimal genre use is 0% and max number of genres is set as 10:
So, any ideas on how to display the Christmas-music and pick on? ( I had a look at the Picard docs, but canât see anything)âŚ
Neither Joni Mitchell nor the release or release group are tagged as âchristmas-musicâ, so this canât work.
Also Picard will currently use the genres from recordings, releases and release groups for each track. The artist genreâs will only be used if there are no genres specified on the other levels and if you have activated the âFall back on albumâs artist genresâ (see your screenshot).
So if you want to have âchristmas musicâ show up as a genre for this album you should add that to the release or release group.
But actually the only christmas related song seems to be River, and that one is already tagged as christmas music. Does this tag show up for you?
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ok. I want to do it at the track level. Blue is not a christmas album, just the one track River
Correct - see above.
Not in Picard, only on the MB websiteâŚ
I donât:
Update:
I just re-encoded the album to flac and tried Picard on that.
The genre for River still doesnât include Christmas-Music:
Not sure if it will change anything but FYI Iâve added a +1 tag for xmas music to the song (in case results now vary)
just checked and the âChristmas Musicâ genre appears in my list! Why would your vote make it appear for me when it already appears for @outsidecontext ?
That is interesting - letâs test, Iâve removed my vote again, see if it shows up now!
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You are correct. The genre âChristmas-Musicâ is now not showingâŚ
with minimal genre usage = 0%
ok hear me out, tick Use folksonomy tags as genre then see if it pulls through
I noticed that difference between your setup and mine when you asked for a screenshot of my options and tried it out before I uploaded my options screenshot⌠it didnât make any difference!
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what version of Picard are you on? Iâm on 2.8.5