Search for the 'killer app'

[triadruid]

For the record, a 'killer app(lication)' is a term for something which is so necessary/important that you're willing to change your general computing habits in order to be able to use it. Me installing Windows in order to play Diablo II is a good example.

What I'm looking for now is a music player that understands multiple Genres, specifically when encoded in Ogg-Vorbis format (since I don't think .MP3s support multiple-genres yet). And while the .ogg metadata format allows you to define a song as both Techno and Arabic, most players (all that I know of) only read the first one. I know one can create playlists that contain songs from multiple playlists, but I am more likely to want to play a certain type of metal (for instance, Speed Metal or Apocalyptic Metal) while playing a game, than want to rebuild a playlist every time I get a new CD. If the information is stored with the song file in the Genre where it belongs, then selecting what to play becomes intuitive rather than cumbersome.

Whether it's on Windows or Linux doesn't really matter, though I'd prefer if I could do it while gaming on Windows. But I'll have a use for it in both environments, I'm sure.

Comments

FWIW

[agrnmn.livejournal.com]

Real Player does multiple genres. It doesn't have the particular ones you listed but you could create them and then set up certain types of playlists that it will pull from your genres as you see fit.

Re: FWIW

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I think it's also chock full of spyware. It certainly used to be.

Re: FWIW

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Real sucks. Don't use their products.

Thanks

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I should have been more specific, or rather less; the Genre field should be user-customizable, at least in .ogg formats. I was taking that for granted, which may have been a fallacy on my part.

[druidevo.livejournal.com]

I think you might try looking at audacity(sp?), I know it can play anything you throw at it, and it open source.

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

I've Used That, I Thought It Was More For Editting And Working With Sound, Rather Than Being A Player (Designed to Sort And Playback.)

I Don't Know Of A Solution, But If you Find One, Please Post It, Because I Might Switch From Winamp For Something that Worked Like That.

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

Reading all of these comments makes me feel completely un-geeky. A good portion of all of that seemed like a foreign language to me...
walks away shaking head in wonder