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#637572 01/21/21 05:11 AM
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Hi,

I notice 'Blues' is not a Song genre in BIAB.

So, how can one filter/sort on and find the available blues songs?

(I can't believe it's not possible!)


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You mean style? There are lots of blues styles:

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No, I mean I want to find the Blues SONGS.

One working definition of that would be any Song saved with a Blues style.

Another working definition of that would be any song saved with metadata Genre of 'Blues', except that such seemingly does not exist! (unlike Jazz, Pop, Country)


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Originally Posted By: sj1
No, I mean I want to find the Blues SONGS.

One working definition of that would be any Song saved with a Blues style.

Another working definition of that would be any song saved with metadata Genre of 'Blues', except that such seemingly does not exist! (unlike Jazz, Pop, Country)

I'm not sure that there is a filter feature available that only lists songs that contain any thing related to a Blues (or other genre) Style. Others may know more.


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Using the Song Picker feature, you could point the folder location to your RealTracks Demo folder and then use the Filter String "Blues" - for me, this resulted in 763 demo songs being listed.


Resource:

Our Blues RealTracks Sets are:
RealTracks Set 10: All Blues (Shuffle)
RealTracks Set 30: Blues (Slow Swing)
RealTracks Set 31: Blues (Slow Even 8ths)
RealTracks Set 32: Blues (Fast Even 8ths)
RealTracks Set 44: Blues Guitar and Organ
RealTracks Set 86: Blues Rock
RealTracks Set 140: Texas Blues-Rock Shuffle
RealTracks Set 170: Texas Blues-Rock Slow Groovin' 128
RealTracks Set 175: Texas Blues-Rock Smokin' Blues Sax
RealTracks Set 189: Blues Baritone Sax with Gary Smulyan
RealTracks Set 209: Rockin' Blues Baritone Sax with Gary Smulyan
RealTracks Set 243: Blues Baritone and Resonator Guitars
RealTracks Set 245: Brent Mason - Country Blues Rock and More
RealTracks Set 267: More Blues Blues with Brent and Mike
RealTracks Set 280: Americana - Gritty Blues & Rockabilly
RealTracks Set 299: Rootsy Blues Guitar & Piano
RealTracks Set 303: Blues Harp with LD Miller
RealTracks Set 304: Blues Shuffle Horn Section
RealTracks Set 309: More Blues with Sol Philcox
RealTracks Set 332: More Blues
RealTracks Set 334: Jazz Blues Comping and Soloing
RealTracks Set 345: Bluesy Baritone
RealTracks Set 353: Fusion Soloing, Lowdown Blues
RealTracks Set 354: Minor Blues, Jazz


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Ah, that is quite slick, thank you Callie!

I had no clue towards this approach.

I get similar results (739 items), though many of them are duplicates.

So, do I understand correctly that the BIAB distribution contains actual song files (.SGU, .MGU) provided for the purpose of demo'ing the Realtracks located here:

C:\bb\Demos\RealTracks - Demos

and that these are effectively complete songs available for the user to use and/or repurpose as desired?

Certainly this seems like a resource I'll not quickly exhaust!

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FWIW, as a general purpose ability, I think it would be a fine addition to the Song Picker to allow users to search for Songs (wherever they are) based on the style genre of the Style stored with the Song.

Thanks again!


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FWIW, as a general purpose ability, I think it would be a fine addition to the Song Picker to allow users to search for Songs (wherever they are) based on the style genre of the Style stored with the Song.

Yes, definitely agreed. My understanding is that the Song Picker currently finds songs containing the selected word, not the internally used style genre. A good one for the wishlist, sj1?


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