I definitely would support a "New Age" category; a Comedy/Novelty might be a good idea too. "Classical" I'm not so sure about, but "Contemporary Classical" or at least "Film Score" maybe.

I think generally speaking, what I'm not liking at the moment is how the Electronic category specifically is too broad. The #1 track is basically an unprocessed female vocalist over a simple sampled beat and several synths. It's not really a dance tune - sounds like a pop or indie tune to me. Then the #2 is new age. Then you have very harsh club/techno songs competing in the same category, then you have MY material which is not really any of these categories.

There is always the risk of over-classifying, which is what happened to Garageband imo (electronic, dance, techno? what's the difference?) but I think it might not be a bad idea to have "Dance (Electronic)" and "Downtempo (Electronic)". The latter might even be able to cover New Age too, killing two birds with one stone.

Last edited by Andrew Aversa; 02/05/08 09:49 PM.
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