Genres, genres, genres – help shape ACAS4U’s future!

The best way would be with two-stage genre names, ie:

Hip Hop – Gangsta Rap
Hip Hop – Booty Bass
Hip Hop – Electrofunk

…you get the idea, have a genre, then a style so people can find what they need as fast as possible, because there is alot of variation within any genre.

Just a thought.

… glorious fun. I can see errors already.
LOWER CASE people.
I dunno how varied the acapellas are and i’d imagine there is a lot of cross over material!

Are you looking for a Genre – sub genre setting? (kinda like what Juno.co.uk have?? it’s the only thing/place i know that i’ve seen work from the back end)

[quote quote="Reggie_p75":lcr24hqw]This is gonna be absolute chaos..

Best thing to do would be is to have a primary genre ie. hip-hop and a secondary genre ie. commercial, underground, UK, US..

Seems the best option n appear to be a preferred option already.

As long as it doesn’t get stupid with people suggesting ‘house – needs painting’, ‘hip-hop – my grandad has just had one’, ‘rock – poodle 80s spandex’.. and the rest of it

No doubt there’ll be people who don’t agree, that wot war was made for..

But…… WAR!!!…… Wot is it good for??….. Absolutely Nuthin’!!!!!!

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Exactly (about everything )

Genre tags? Is that what you’re asking? Hard to tell given the directions this conversation has taken.

Anyway, here’s my response to what I *think* is the question:

hiphop_gangsta
hiphop_dirtysouth
hiphop_westcoast
hiphop_eastcoast
randb_modern
randb_classic
randb_pop
randb_jazz
rock_modern
rock_classic

etc … if I’m on the right track, I’ll come up with some others and y’all can do likewise. If I’m totally off the track, I’ll shut up.

Ive always thought rap pellas should be seperate from the rest. You’ve got a ton of rap pellas, and lets say im randomly searching for a pella to do a house remix of. Chances are im going to skip through the rap pellas ( although ive heard house remixes of rap songs ) If i plan on doing a rap remix, most likely i wont want to see George Michael or Madonna pellas.

Maybe have two seperate indexs, one for rap and one for non-rap. Then beyond that add additional tags.

So:

Browse Rap_Acapellas
Browse Non-Rap_Acapellas

or something like that.

I think its also in the eye of the beholder, what one might think of being one sub-genre another might disagree. Also keep in mind fusion. Some songs may have multiple sub genres.

Heres some main categories from what ive seen….

Rap, RnB, Rock, Jazz, Pop, Dance, Latin, Country, International.

ahhh cool looks ok a bit plain though int it …

acapella wrote:

Damn it, now see what you made me do, go spill the beans…

MWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Less chit-chat, more upgrading

I’ll state the obvious…

How about keeping the genres the same as the genres in the test pressing section?

1. This is simple
2. It will tie in with what people are uploading as they have to put their tracks in one of these sections anyway.

So…

breaks
commercial
pop
downtempo
hiphop
house

etc, etc, etc…