Followup on standardization of tagging music genres

arghdos
2018-08-24T18:32:44Z

So, as a followup to the music tagging thread from a few days ago, I would like to propose the following for discussion.

1. Should all musical posts be tagged with at least one high-level musical genre?

The consensus from the last post appeared to be a yes on this. Please note:, this doesn't mean that anyone who submits a track is required to go look up / determine the best genre themselves. If they choose not to, one of the tag mods may do so for them while browsing. Further, we seemed to reach a consensus last time that in the future it would be best to automate this step as completely as possible.

2. Which tags do we want to use?

I / @Whom have done some digging and found several different schemes we might use as a basis. For convenience, I've reproduced them in a table for you below:


FreeDB | Discogs | Wikipedia | Allmusic | Rate Your Music
Blues | Blues | Blues | Blues | Ambient
Classical | Brass & Military | Classical | Classical | Blues
Country | Children's | Country | Country | Classical Music
Folk | Classical | Electronic | Electronic | Comedy
Jazz | Electronic | Folk | International | Country
Newage | Folk, World, & Country | Hip-hop | Jazz | Dance
Reggae | Funk / Soul | Jazz | Latin | Electronic
Rock | Hip-hop | Reggae | Pop/Rock | Experimental
Soundtrack | Jazz | Religious | R&B | Field Recordings
| Latin | Rock | Rap | Folk
| Non-Music | Traditional | Reggae | Hip Hop
| Pop | | | Industrial Music
| Reggae | | | Jazz
| Rock | | | Metal
| Stage & Screen | | | Musical Theatre and Entertainment
| | | | New Age
| | | | Pop
| | | | Psychedelia
| | | | Punk
| | | | R&B
| | | | Regional Music
| | | | Rock
| | | | Singer/Songwriter
| | | | Ska
| | | | Sounds and Effects
| | | | Spoken Word


I think ideally we will be able to come up with (say) a list the size of wikipedia, allmusic or discogs such that determining the right genre isn't much of a burden on tag mods. In the future, we could expand this or even start inheriting the RYM genre hierarchy (e.g., Ska -> 2 Tone, Jamaican Ska, Spouge, Third Wave Ska)

So with that out of the way, I think the best way to proceed is for each of you to either:

A) Build a list of your own with one of these as a basis. We can count up how many people include a genre an count as a vote for it's inclusion.

Or

B) Argue for / against a specific genre's inclusion.

Sound good? Did I miss anything?

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