Proto-Prog, Prog Related or Prog Pop which is it?

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 chopper wrote:

 Spaciousmind wrote:

So being able to sort by genre or even better by mood does become something you want, otherwise you end up either taking the headphones off because of distracting noise you don't have time for at that moment in time.  Even with Genre assuming you set it up with the Prog Archives categories you still have a huge difference of Bands and Sounds that are not always compatible to your listening mood.

So what you really want to do is group them by mood? My Sony Walkman MP3 player does that by analysing the tracks- it will classify music by quiet, relaxing, loud, dance etc etc and it works reasonably well. Maybe there's some other software that will do that?

The software won't do it automatically.  But, that is what I will most probably do once I am finished with converting the rest of my cd's.

It has two extra pop-down categories:  Moods and Occasion with pop down choices.  Looking at them "Occasion" might be the easiest way to go as a couple of the pop down choices do show "Work" and "Christmas"  which is useful so I can separate a band's seasonal album out of my daily listening but auto find them at Christmas.  As in for example Moody Blues "December" or JT's and Ian Andersons seasonal Christmas stuff.  I don't need them popping up in a playlist during the year!  "Live" and "Compilation" are probably two more tags that I will create so that with a click I can use or have removed in play lists.

All this sounds trivial but it really is a big deal if you have a big collection and you are putting them into a player and not wanting to spend half your time scrolling and picking what to play.

But there are benefits once sorted.  A couple of custom USB sticks for the road for me and a custom one for my life partner.  Unfortunately she cringes when she hears a lot of the prog, but fill a stick with Rammstein, AC/DC, Journey, Aerosmith, Album Rock, T'Rex, Bowie, The Sweet, etc and she is happy and no more nagging in the car lol.  She is all over anything that sounds like Till and I introduced her to T'Rex the same. She can't get enough of Marc Bolan. 

Just to put into perspective the work of converting, I finished Jethro and Ian Andersen last week and was shocked when I realized I had converted 51.