'Key Words' for iTunes Solved ?

[Tony Wilson]

An item on my iTunes wish list has been keywords [sub-genre] akin to 
iPhoto's keywords.
My main music of choice is jazz which begs for sub-classification; but 
using custom genres in iTunes would be numerous and 
unwieldy--jazzintrumentalhardbop...jazzsvocalcontemporaryfemale...and 
on and on. I'm considering using the new 'beats per minute' feature in 
iTunes 4 to code my own keywords since I doubt I'll ever use this tag 
as it was intended. Something like this:

Key Defined....Instrumental....Male[s] Vocal....Female[s] Vocal....M/F 
Duets and Group Vocal
Vocal^.................-....................10................... 20 
................... 30
New/Chi*.............1....................11....................21 
................... 31
Swing...................2...................12....................22 
................... 32
Bebop..................3....................13....................23 
................... 33
CoolCoast............4....................14....................24 
................... 34
Hardbop..............5....................15....................25 
................... 35
Latin....................6....................16....................26 
................... 36
Fusion.................7.....................17...................27 
................... 37
Contemporary.....8....................18....................28 
................... 38
SongBook$..........9....................19....................29 
................... 39

^-Works with any genre
*-New Orleans and Chicago styles
$-Film, theater, Standards with jazz genre

I can sort on the BPM column and quickly go to all my bebop male vocal 
tracks [13] or instrumental west coast cuts [4]. And this code matrix 
is easily memorized. Or I could use the Genre tag for the broad classes 
[swing, bebop, etc]  and define the key codes descriptively--'Hot', 
'Cool', 'Blue', etc. Some might simply want to use 1 for female and 2 
for male and 3 for mixed singers to sort their music by just those 
criteria.

This scheme also can be utilized by smart playlists--a constantly 
updated list of all your jazz genre, latin style, mixed vocalists from 
the 1960s if one was so inclined. I believe some balance between genre 
and a short key code list can greatly enhance iTunes classify and sort 
capabilities.

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Tony