Combining Genres

[mars51]

Thanks so much for this. Really appreciate the effort you made to explain this clearly, David. It works like a charm. I'm as new to it as Minimserver but, using MP3Tag, you go to Views>Customize Columns and create a new column "Genre Group" based on the value & field of the existing Genre column but replacing "$meta_sep(genre,\\)" with "$meta_sep(genregroup,\\)". That gets you a new Genre Group column without values. Next, Tools>Options & click on Tag Panel entering "Genre Group" as a new field (to the existing Album Artist, Composer and Discnumber fields). That gets you a new editing box on the left sidebar to input "Jazz" or whatever. Let MP3Tag grind through the re-tagging, add "GenreGroup" to indexTags, re-scan in Minimwatch and your Control Point sees GenreGroup in folder view. The total elegance of your idea is that you don't need to edit Genre. I tried both Lumin & Kinsky apps and it's perfect.
I will do the same for Classical where I fortuitously have "Classical (Piano Concerto), Classical (Symphony)" etc as existing Genres. I'm only now appreciating Intelligent Browsing for the genius it is because I'm really not a playlist person.
Martin