Genre tagging: using available tag and order sorting

[alan9990]

I have a question re trying to make sense of my Genre tagging. I've read, re-read, and re-re-read post replies, and am going over and over the user guide... It takes me several readings to be able to sort everything into a meaningful understanding.

From the documentation it looks to me as if "Tag options" and "sortTags" is where I need to be looking? Hopefully an example will explain.

Due to inconsistencies between Musicbrainz, Discogs, CCDB lookups when ripping CDS, all this auto-tagging, combined with whatever artists and contributors upload to these various databases the below is an example of how the first entries in my Genre folder appear:

Code:

Acid Jazz
Acid Jazz|Afrobeat\Funk\Jazz\Latin Jazz
Acid Jazz|Contemporary R&B|Electronic|Soul
Acid Jazz|Disco|Funk|Jazz

and so on. The numerous combinations mean that the alphabetical display of unsorted genres runs into the thousands! And none of it due to any deliberate choices on my part. I understand that in the above categories, each 'sub' entry can represent just one track from an album - the remainder of which being tagged perhaps entirely as "Acid Jazz".

I'm trying to work out how to use the formatting options such that:

in the above list I'll take the third line

Code:

Acid Jazz|Contemporary R&B|Electronic|Soul

what I want to achieve is that this track will appear in each of those categories, but with just one entry in each (cross-referred if you will), so that "Acid Jazz", "Contemporary R&B", "Electronic" etc are displayed as just these single tag groups. Thus that line above, and which can represent just a single track, can exist as

Code:

Acid Jazz
Contemporary R&B
Electronic
Soul

The thinking behind this is simply that I can browse via "Genre", enter text, and have any track that might contain those terms neatly listed, as opposed to the current "dog's dinner" of arbitrary listing and special characters.

At this stage it's really not clear from the available documentation if this kind of filtering is possible on the "Genre" tag?