Trying to standardize genres/other tags

[Sophist]

@sickwolf

I totally agree, but at the same time it make sense to the people using X or Y genre as a descriptive term - like I use steampunk to refer to Abney Park music style and it is arbitrary, but to me it make sense. I won’t force it on anyone though and you might prefer other genre to describe it.

We human love tagging stuff and inventing names. (I say genre but you may refer them as tags, I use genre loosely here don’t throw stones)

IMO this is exactly the difference between tags and genres. Tags are subjective and for personal use. Genres are formal metadata.

@sickwolf

I’m gonna go wild here:
Can we actually make a hierarchy/tree of genre and change how we input them in MB from a thread like this? I have no idea how this would work, etc. But like - can we actually change things?

MBS-11545 and MBS-11501.

[sickwolf]

My savior, thank you! I followed all 3 issues

[outsidecontext]

@Sophist

I think it never got converted to v2. It may be in the repo under the 1.0 branch.

There is an updated version at Updated lastfmplus plugin for Picard/Lastfm 2.0 APIs by Jormangeud · Pull Request #170 · metabrainz/picard-plugins · GitHub proposed for inclusion. But looks like nobody wants to maintain it and address the open issues of this plugin My last comment on this pull request still stands.

[atj]

This thread seems to have turned into a more general discussion about genres but FWIW, I submitted a PR to Picard to add a $replacemulti script function, and it has now been merged:

PICARD-2177: Add script function to replace entries in multi-value variables

So it will be available in the next version of Picard, which I imagine will be released in a month or so.

[aerozol]

Someone on reddit had a similar question (e.g. standardizing hiphop, hip hop and hip-hop).

This thread looks like it got the closest, but it seems like none of the posts have the ‘perfect’ solution.

I think a few people will use this - do any of you script wizards want to share the definitive script to standardize multiple tag variations into one?

[rdswift]

This is actually one of the reasons I wrote the Genre Mapper plugin. It provides the ability to standardize genres in the genre tag by matching the genres as found to a standard genre as defined in the genre replacement mapping configuration option. Once installed a settings page will be added to Picard’s options, which is where the plugin is configured.

For more information please see the user guide for the plugin.

[aerozol]

Perfect, thanks @rdswift! I missed that one!