How do I Add A New "Type"?

[kkiejko]

I'm in the same boat. I haven't really been using MediaMonkey very seriously, but as of late I've been trying to figure out how to use it more efficiently, but it's layout seems to be.....strange. For example, I too would like to be able to shuffle all of my music EXCEPT Christmas music for times outside of the Christmas season. So I started looking into it and learned about Collections. I thought it was strange that there was one default "Classical Music" collection. Why classical? and how was it being filtered out? Apparently it uses a field called "Type" to filter it out, which I thought was odd. Why not use "Genre"? What is the difference between "Type" and "Genre"? I don't know. I'd personally prefer to use "Genre" to filter out collections, but I'm not sure if that is possible, but I'm going to try to find out.

[Lowlander]

Yes, you can use Genre in Collections to filter out content.

[kkiejko]

Yes, you can use Genre in Collections to filter out content.

But why did they include "classical" as a "type"? Type does seem more like "Music", "Video", "Podcast", or "Audiobook" where "Classical" seems more like a genre. I'll play around with using genre to filter, but I just found it odd. When I click on my "Classical" collection, there's only about 5 albums in there (I have a LOT more). How did those files get tagged as "Classical" type? I didn't do that.

[Lowlander]

Because users use if differently than Music. Music is Artist based, but Classical is often used Composer based.