Song Mixer

Managing genres

You can access the genre manager from the menu: "Library" -> "Tools" -> "Manage genres"   You can also access the genre manager while editing song details by clicking the "..." button next to the genre field   You can also access the genre manager from the mood ring.

Advanced Tools: To access the Advanced Genre Tools portion of the genre manager, click on the green ">" button at the top.

Genres, or types of music, are a very important aspect of Song Mixer.  One of the key features of Song Mixer is to randomly select songs using the mood ring to select songs of a particular style.

You can have as many different genres as you'd like, and in fact it's best to have a wide variety.  For example having only "Rock" to describe all rock music is going to make it difficult to organize your music in a way that would allow the mood ring to work well.  Instead you may wish to have genres like "grunge, slow rock, happy rock, angry rock, etc..."

There are advanced tools to help you organize genres:

• Remove genres not in use
  Removes from the list of genres any item which isn't being used by any song in the currently loaded library.
• Add genres in use that are not listed
  This is the opposite of the previous tool.  This will look at all of the songs in the currently loaded library and if any song has a genre which isn't on this list, that genre will be added to the list.
• Add all ID3v1 standard genres
  These genres should be on the list by default, but may have been removed.  If you would like to add them back then click this button.  There are 115 standard genres known to ID3v1 tags.
• Remove numbers from genres
  Some other music management software may add numbers to genre names.  Use this tool to remove those numbers leaving only the genre name itself.

If you make any changes to your genres the 'Save' button will turn red indicating that there are unsaved changes to the gerne manager.  Click it to save your changes and the button will return to orange.  Or if you want to cancel your changes close the genre manager and reopen it without saving.

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