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Well, I finally went and did it - posted my new program TuneTags on VersionTracker.com. Here's hoping I didn't miss any obvious bugs and get roasted.
I thought of making TuneTags when I realized how limiting the Genre tag was for song tracks. I wanted to be able to mark songs as good for driving music, good party music, mellow to help you relax, romantic, some combination of those, or whatever. I realized that the Comment tag usually goes fairly unused, and I could save keywords, or "tunetags" there. It is slightly limited by the fact that the Comment tag is limited to 255 characters, but it will work for now. If I made a custom MP3 tag iTunes would be unable to build smart playlists based on those tunetags.
Anyway, here's the freeware product blurb:
TuneTags is an application that works with iTunes to let you add keywords, or "tunetags" to your music.
Have you ever realized that many songs do not fit into just ONE Genre? Or, you want to note which songs are good for Driving, are Romantic, or just about anything else useful to know? You can make playlists for these things, but it would be better if the song itself could be marked with many different keywords, or "tunetags" that let you know more about each song. Then, smart playlists could be made that show you all your good 80's Driving music, or Romantic Folk music, or Defiant Rock music or even music good for getting psyched before a competition.
TuneTags lets you mark each song using many tags from a list, or Library, of tags. It comes with a starting Library of tags, but you can add your your own to the Library as you think of new tunetags that describe your music.
This is a great idea. Since Entourage started to use sync services to stay in sync with Addressbook, i have been using the notes field as a substitute for the 'rage "categories" field, which does not sync (no counterpart in Addressbook).
As 'rage is highly scriptable, a counterpart to tune tags might allow users to bidirectionally sync categories and note "tags" in rage. Many thousands of users would like this.
2 features I'd love to see in tune tags:
* Double click adds an item to the list
* Choose between the big list (love your choices!), and a second shorter list just of tags used previously