razmo wrote:Would it be hard to maintain, if there was just a simple checkbox when you upload, with a few ovarall genre categories to place your music in?
Ok, I might've used the wrong word when saying "hard to maintain". But you'll always have people who don't want to use the given categories because they're too broad, and using too narrow categories would require hundreds of different categories - something I personally find very silly. Plus, too narrow categorization would render the filters useless to anyone not "in the know" of all the genres.
Then there's the people who'll label their music "wrong", either deliberatly or by accident, and then you'll have errors in the filter and complaints about this-and-that being categorized wrong, and who'll have to fix that? LMan I guess.
And would you be able to label your remix with several different genres, say for a symphonic rock-tune, would you then be able to mark Rock/Metal and Orchestral at the same time? And what if said tune also had electro/techno influences? And what would keep attention-seekers to mark every category they can, to get through as many filters as possible?
Plus, as I said before, any category marked "electronic" or "techno" or "dance" would be huge, while others would be next to empty.
In the end, LMan would have to be the one to implement it and maintain it, and I think it would bring a lot of extra work to an already heavy load.
I know I'm sounding very negative here, it's just that I've seen categorization go horribly wrong too many times to actually give a damn about it these days.
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