[mb-users] At what level should 'genre' tags be added totracks/releases

[Ali, Mustaqil M]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: musicbrainz-users-bounces at lists.musicbrainz.org
> [mailto:musicbrainz-users-bounces at lists.musicbrainz.org] On Behalf Of
> Paul Taylor
> Sent: 04 June 2008 08:10
> Cc: General discussions about MusicBrainz
> Subject: Re: [mb-users] At what level should 'genre' tags be added
> totracks/releases
> 
> Philipp Wolfer wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Paul Taylor <paul_t100 at fastmail.fm
> > <mailto:paul_t100 at fastmail.fm>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     > What we really need are a lot of people adding tags (no matter
> >     how or
> >     > what). Currently we don't have that and we will only get users
> >     to tag
> >     > their music if the tags they add are useful to themselves. I'm
> still
> >     > looking for a media player supporting tags to organize my music
> >     > collection, of course syncing the tag with MusicBrainz ;)
> >     Yeah, Ive just added getting tags as genres to Jaikoz , and Im
> working
> >     on submitting genres back to mb so hopefully the number of tags
> in MB
> >     will increase when this is released.
> >
> >
> > That sounds cool. For Jaikoz I think it would be best to add tags per
> > track, if users can add them per track in the program, too ( I
> suppose
> > that's how it'll work).
> >
> > Phil
> One problem about submitting per track is it will take a while because
> of the 1 second delay per request. For  10,000 tracks thats going to
> take 3 hours, if I did it at release level take about 20 minutes. This
> is ok for hardcore musicrainz users but might put of the casual user
> from bothering to submit their genres, we wil have to see.
> 
> paul

Hey,

The trick here is to be able to tag an item with multiple strings in one web request call. By this, I mean the user can tag the item as "moose, blargh, ponies, cheese, better than ponies" and this would make 1 call to the web service, where it then separates the values based on commas, and assigns this item the five tags:
Moose
Blargh
Ponies
Cheese
Better than ponies

I don't know if there's support for this already, but if there isn't, there really should be.

- Muz

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