Custom Tag Fields

[xnor]

It would be great to be able to add my own fields to the song tags and visualize them in the application.

Use case: I am a DJ and like to put together 'crates' [essentially playlists for future DJing] with subsonic. It would be nice if I could store the average tempo in beats per minute [BPM] of my songs with the song data, so I could have an idea of how well songs will fit together in tempo. I am already using the Rest API to import playlists from subsonic into my DJ software, so adding the BPM back to the subsonic database from my software wouldn't be difficult.

I can imagine there are other fields people might like to add.

In my software I call tags that every song has a 'descriptor' [like this BPM tag].. I also have what I call 'tags' which are textual associations that not every song would have. Genre is an example. Some songs have the 'black metal' genre tag, some have 'techno'. It would be nice to be able to create 'tags' like this in subsonic, beyond genre. I could say this song has a lyrical theme 'love' or 'dancing' and eventually us those tags to search. I currently use playlists for this, i call my playlist 'tag-lyrical_theme-love', but playlist creation isn't really as nimble as one would like for this kind of tagging. It would be nice to be able to more quickly create these kinds of association.

Either way, the custom field in every song's meta data for something like BPM is the most desirable.