life is becoming more interesting
Jul. 10th, 2011 12:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eFor a long time I've been conscious of the fact that society, or at least Western society, is becoming more complex and more nuanced. (I suspect the same is true of the rest of the world, perhaps to a lesser extent, but I don't really have enough knowledge of those societies.)
This morning I was using a lovely program called 'id3v2' to set the tags of some mp3 files I downloaded from a wonderful radio program called 'Little Atoms' (http://www.littleatoms.com ), because unfortunately the makers neglected to set any tags in their files.
What delighted me this morning was when I went to categorise the radio shows as interviews or talks, I looked at the list of genres that id3v2 makes available to find a label that was appropriate. Here is the built-in list (behind a cut-tag):
I love that this is happening.
Oh, by the way, only a few of those are not music categories, so I didn't find what I wanted. The closest is "speech". How cool that even this extensive list is incomplete! To their credit, the creators of the id3v2 tag system saw the difficulties of naming ever-proliferating audio categories so they left the tag open. I was therefore able to make up my own category: "radio show interview" and write that into the TCON tag as literal text instead of a predefined category number. Yay!
This morning I was using a lovely program called 'id3v2' to set the tags of some mp3 files I downloaded from a wonderful radio program called 'Little Atoms' (http://www.littleatoms.com ), because unfortunately the makers neglected to set any tags in their files.
What delighted me this morning was when I went to categorise the radio shows as interviews or talks, I looked at the list of genres that id3v2 makes available to find a label that was appropriate. Here is the built-in list (behind a cut-tag):
0: BluesIsn't that cool? I remember when I was a kid there were only perhaps a dozen categories of music. In just half a century this part of culture has exploded. I'm certain this has happened to other aspects of society too.
1: Classic Rock
2: Country
3: Dance
4: Disco
5: Funk
6: Grunge
7: Hip-Hop
8: Jazz
9: Metal
10: New Age
11: Oldies
12: Other
13: Pop
14: R&B
15: Rap
16: Reggae
17: Rock
18: Techno
19: Industrial
20: Alternative
21: Ska
22: Death Metal
23: Pranks
24: Soundtrack
25: Euro-Techno
26: Ambient
27: Trip-Hop
28: Vocal
29: Jazz+Funk
30: Fusion
31: Trance
32: Classical
33: Instrumental
34: Acid
35: House
36: Game
37: Sound Clip
38: Gospel
39: Noise
40: Alt. Rock
41: Bass
42: Soul
43: Punk
44: Space
45: Meditative
46: Instrum. Pop
47: Instrum. Rock
48: Ethnic
49: Gothic
50: Darkwave
51: Techno-Indust.
52: Electronic
53: Pop-Folk
54: Eurodance
55: Dream
56: Southern Rock
57: Comedy
58: Cult
59: Gangsta
60: Top 40
61: Christian Rap
62: Pop/Funk
63: Jungle
64: Native American
65: Cabaret
66: New Wave
67: Psychadelic
68: Rave
69: Showtunes
70: Trailer
71: Lo-Fi
72: Tribal
73: Acid Punk
74: Acid Jazz
75: Polka
76: Retro
77: Musical
78: Rock & Roll
79: Hard Rock
80: Folk
81: Folk/Rock
82: National Folk
83: Swing
84: Fusion
85: Bebob
86: Latin
87: Revival
88: Celtic
89: Bluegrass
90: Avantgarde
91: Gothic Rock
92: Progress. Rock
93: Psychadel. Rock
94: Symphonic Rock
95: Slow Rock
96: Big Band
97: Chorus
98: Easy Listening
99: Acoustic
100: Humour
101: Speech
102: Chanson
103: Opera
104: Chamber Music
105: Sonata
106: Symphony
107: Booty Bass
108: Primus
109: Porn Groove
110: Satire
111: Slow Jam
112: Club
113: Tango
114: Samba
115: Folklore
116: Ballad
117: Power Ballad
118: Rhythmic Soul
119: Freestyle
120: Duet
121: Punk Rock
122: Drum Solo
123: A Capella
124: Euro-House
125: Dance Hall
126: Goa
127: Drum & Bass
128: Club-House
129: Hardcore
130: Terror
131: Indie
132: BritPop
133: Negerpunk
134: Polsk Punk
135: Beat
136: Christian Gangsta Rap
137: Heavy Metal
138: Black Metal
139: Crossover
140: Contemporary Christian
141: Christian Rock
142: Merengue
143: Salsa
144: Thrash Metal
145: Anime
146: Jpop
147: Synthpop
I love that this is happening.
Oh, by the way, only a few of those are not music categories, so I didn't find what I wanted. The closest is "speech". How cool that even this extensive list is incomplete! To their credit, the creators of the id3v2 tag system saw the difficulties of naming ever-proliferating audio categories so they left the tag open. I was therefore able to make up my own category: "radio show interview" and write that into the TCON tag as literal text instead of a predefined category number. Yay!