Anyone else find out how Media Player/Windows Explorer assign genre for type of music strange?

Ok, file under nitpicking and perhaps it is embedded in the file
header or mistyped in some database somewhere, but it doesn't seem to
make much sense. For those not aware Media Player has the ability to
go out on the web and attempt to find a album cover for whatever music
files you have on your system. It won't work will all and some of the
matches seem strange, still a nice feature if it worked better.

Case in point, I just started looking at my extensive music collection
I recently converted to MP3 format and was looking at the genre*
(type of music) Vista assigned it.

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* If you would like to try this, go to Window Explorer, find a folder
where you have some music files, .wav, MP3 etc.. If you don't already
see the genre column, right click on blank space in the right most
column, select more, then run down the list until you see genre, then
check it, the don't forget to move it up the list to near the top and
finally click apply and ok. You also need to assign a column width.
Now you hit refresh and you should see (assuming Media Player has
already done some research on the web many of your audio files have
now been assigned a genre, like country, blues, rock..
.................................................. .........................

My question, just scanning my files I see some odd genre assigments
that Vista put there for example:

1. A collection of classics from various masters assigned as blues.
2. 12th Street Rag, a blues song is labeled as country.
3. Blue Danube Waltz, got assigned as blues, oh please!
4. Dance of the Blessed Spirits, classical, shown as blues.
5. Danny Boy, a standard oldie, shown as country. Too funny!

Anybody know what's going on?

Adam
What did you use to convert youre music collection to mp3?
There seem to be a lot of shareware on the net. Which one to choose?
Does Windows have a feature capable to convert different music
formats? Thank you.
Galkas

On 17 Mar, 16:59, Adam Albright <A...@ABC.net> wrote:
> Ok, file under nitpicking and perhaps it is embedded in the file
> header or mistyped in some database somewhere, but it doesn't seem to
> make much sense. For those not aware Media Player has the ability to
> go out on the web and attempt to find a album cover for whatever music
> files you have on your system. It won't work will all and some of the
> matches seem strange, still a nice feature if it worked better.
>
> Case in point, I just started looking at my extensive music collection
> I recently converted toMP3format and was looking at the genre*
> (type of music) Vista assigned it.
>
> .................................................. ........................
>
> * If you would like to try this, go to Window Explorer, find a folder
> where you have some music files, .wav,MP3etc.. If you don't already
> see the genre column, right click on blank space in the right most
> column, select more, then run down the list until you see genre, then
> check it, the don't forget to move it up the list to near the top and
> finally click apply and ok. You also need to assign a column width.
> Now you hit refresh and you should see (assuming Media Player has
> already done some research on the web many of youraudiofiles have
> now been assigned a genre, like country, blues, rock..
> .................................................. ........................
>
> My question, just scanning my files I see some odd genre assigments
> that Vista put there for example:
>
> 1. A collection of classics from various masters assigned as blues.
> 2. 12th Street Rag, a blues song is labeled as country.
> 3. Blue Danube Waltz, got assigned as blues, oh please!
> 4. Dance of the Blessed Spirits, classical, shown as blues.
> 5. Danny Boy, a standard oldie, shown as country. Too funny!
>
> Anybody know what's going on?

On 17 Mar 2007 15:39:02 -0700, "galkas" <> wrote:

>Adam
>What did you use to convert youre music collection to mp3?
>There seem to be a lot of shareware on the net. Which one to choose?
>Does Windows have a feature capable to convert different music
>formats? Thank you.
>Galkas

I used Roxio Easy Creator 9. Because mp3 uses a licensed codec I doubt
you'll find any "legal" free applications. I normally use Vegas to do
this kind of thing but I wanted to see what Roxio could do. Easy
Creator 9 takes a whole CD at a gulp (usually-18-24) songs and
converts the whole bunch in one operation...in a couple minutes. One
down side it adds the track number, so I renamed to get rid of that
since everything is going to end up in a one big folder sorted by
genre which I'm reediting right now to suit my own tastes. ;-)

If they are in wma format, burn to CD with Media Player then rip from CD in
MP3 format also with media player.
"galkas" <> wrote in message
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> Adam
> What did you use to convert youre music collection to mp3?
> There seem to be a lot of shareware on the net. Which one to choose?
> Does Windows have a feature capable to convert different music
> formats? Thank you.
> Galkas
>
> On 17 Mar, 16:59, Adam Albright <A...@ABC.net> wrote:
>> Ok, file under nitpicking and perhaps it is embedded in the file
>> header or mistyped in some database somewhere, but it doesn't seem to
>> make much sense. For those not aware Media Player has the ability to
>> go out on the web and attempt to find a album cover for whatever music
>> files you have on your system. It won't work will all and some of the
>> matches seem strange, still a nice feature if it worked better.
>>
>> Case in point, I just started looking at my extensive music collection
>> I recently converted toMP3format and was looking at the genre*
>> (type of music) Vista assigned it.
>>
>> .................................................. ........................
>>
>> * If you would like to try this, go to Window Explorer, find a folder
>> where you have some music files, .wav,MP3etc.. If you don't already
>> see the genre column, right click on blank space in the right most
>> column, select more, then run down the list until you see genre, then
>> check it, the don't forget to move it up the list to near the top and
>> finally click apply and ok. You also need to assign a column width.
>> Now you hit refresh and you should see (assuming Media Player has
>> already done some research on the web many of youraudiofiles have
>> now been assigned a genre, like country, blues, rock..
>> .................................................. ........................
>>
>> My question, just scanning my files I see some odd genre assigments
>> that Vista put there for example:
>>
>> 1. A collection of classics from various masters assigned as blues.
>> 2. 12th Street Rag, a blues song is labeled as country.
>> 3. Blue Danube Waltz, got assigned as blues, oh please!
>> 4. Dance of the Blessed Spirits, classical, shown as blues.
>> 5. Danny Boy, a standard oldie, shown as country. Too funny!
>>
>> Anybody know what's going on?
>
>

"Adam Albright" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On 17 Mar 2007 15:39:02 -0700, "galkas" <> wrote:
>
>>Adam
>>What did you use to convert youre music collection to mp3?
>>There seem to be a lot of shareware on the net. Which one to choose?
>>Does Windows have a feature capable to convert different music
>>formats? Thank you.
>>Galkas
>
> I used Roxio Easy Creator 9. Because mp3 uses a licensed codec I doubt
> you'll find any "legal" free applications. I normally use Vegas to do
> this kind of thing but I wanted to see what Roxio could do. Easy
> Creator 9 takes a whole CD at a gulp (usually-18-24) songs and
> converts the whole bunch in one operation...in a couple minutes. One
> down side it adds the track number, so I renamed to get rid of that
> since everything is going to end up in a one big folder sorted by
> genre which I'm reediting right now to suit my own tastes. ;-)
>
>


Not an SME on this stuff... but I'd guess that Roxio, when you ripped your
CD's, went out to CDDB (or some other database) and categorized your music
based on what was found in the DB. Or the first entry found... And if Roxio
didn't categorize it, Media Player's just going out to a DB somewhere to get
the info...

Shoot, you can go into the iTunes store and search on something you're know
is going to return a lot of hits... oh, I don't know... say Stevie Wonder...
sort by song name and, lo and behold, you'll find the same song categorized
as "rock," "soul," and maybe even "polka." LOL. Don't think it's a Media
Player issue.

Lang

On 18 Mar, 05:28, <.> wrote:
> If they are in wma format, burn to CD with Media Player then rip from CD in
> MP3 format also with media player."galkas" <gal...@mail.ru> wrote in message
>
> news: oups.com...
>
>
>
> > Adam
> > What did you use to convert youre music collection to mp3?
> > There seem to be a lot of shareware on the net. Which one to choose?
> > Does Windows have a feature capable to convert different music
> > formats? Thank you.
> > Galkas
>
> > On 17 Mar, 16:59, Adam Albright <A...@ABC.net> wrote:
> >> Ok, file under nitpicking and perhaps it is embedded in the file
> >> header or mistyped in some database somewhere, but it doesn't seem to
> >> make much sense. For those not aware Media Player has the ability to
> >> go out on the web and attempt to find a album cover for whatever music
> >> files you have on your system. It won't work will all and some of the
> >> matches seem strange, still a nice feature if it worked better.
>
> >> Case in point, I just started looking at my extensive music collection
> >> I recently converted toMP3format and was looking at the genre*
> >> (type of music) Vista assigned it.
>
> >> .................................................. ........................
>
> >> * If you would like to try this, go to Window Explorer, find a folder
> >> where you have some music files, .wav,MP3etc.. If you don't already
> >> see the genre column, right click on blank space in the right most
> >> column, select more, then run down the list until you see genre, then
> >> check it, the don't forget to move it up the list to near the top and
> >> finally click apply and ok. You also need to assign a column width.
> >> Now you hit refresh and you should see (assuming Media Player has
> >> already done some research on the web many of youraudiofiles have
> >> now been assigned a genre, like country, blues, rock..
> >> .................................................. ........................
>
> >> My question, just scanning my files I see some odd genre assigments
> >> that Vista put there for example:
>
> >> 1. A collection of classics from various masters assigned as blues.
> >> 2. 12th Street Rag, a blues song is labeled as country.
> >> 3. Blue Danube Waltz, got assigned as blues, oh please!
> >> 4. Dance of the Blessed Spirits, classical, shown as blues.
> >> 5. Danny Boy, a standard oldie, shown as country. Too funny!
>
> >> Anybody know what's going on?- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Hello
Thank you very much. A suggestion of the last author to use Windows
Media player works like a charm!
gs