Hi,
I have a couple of questions about the use of genres in Roon. I am using my own genres rather than Roon’s genres, though map my top level genres to Roon’s top level genres where the same name/term is used in Roon.
For some international music I’d like to create a hierarchy based on continent/country/genre, so Fela Kuti’s albums would be:
Africa -> Nigeria -> Afrobeat.
My questions are:
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From initial testing it seems like child genres don’t inherit parent genres automatically - i.e. if I add the genre ‘Afrobeat’ to an album it won’t have ‘Africa’ and ‘Nigeria’ added automatically. Is this the expected behaviour?
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Similarly, it seems that if I apply genres to an artist it doesn’t automatically add these genres to albums by the artist. Again, is this the expected behaviour?
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Given that there may be ‘Afrobeat’ albums released by artists from different countries it actually makes sense that parent genres wouldn’t be inherited, but in this case I am wondering if it is possible to have the same genre show up in different places under the hierarchy, e.g.:
Africa -> Nigeria -> Highlife.
Africa -> Ghana -> Highlife.
Africa -> Highlife
If not, where I have albums of the same genres from different countries, I suppose I will have to set it up as a two tier hierarchy:
Africa -> Nigeria
Africa -> Ghana
Africa -> Highlife
Which is a pity, as I’d like to have a view which includes all the sub-subgenres from a given country.
Thanks for any info,
Nick