I'm extra tired today so I'm probably not very coherent right now.
I completely agree about the tree structure of genres, and definitely about the lazy labeling of music as world or based on location, especially since we have country labels already.
I do however disagree about experimental and avant-garde existing as genre tags, at least if they're applied to another genre. Such would be the case with avant-garde jazz.
I do think genre tags could be helpful in the long run for the sake of discovery. Sure there's stuff that will be next to impossible to classify, but attempts can be made
This whole feature is a can of worms, which is basically why it hasn't been built. It could be a great feature to aid discovery of certain types of music as stated in previous post, and that would be the main benefit of implementing it. On the downside is the difficulty in implementing it in a way that everybody is comfortable with & the overhead it might create in terms of data administration.
I think 'tagging' was going to be the method of implementing, rather than genres, as this would get around the issue of 'what is a genre' and creating a taxonomy that not everybody would agree with (except whoever created it). However, this whole area is on the back-burner until I can get enough time off my day job to do the work (which won't be very soon as I can't afford to take several months off work right now).
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