Mulitple genres

Is it possible to have multiple genres for one song? Cos a song may be from a soundtrack but the song is rock or something. At the moment if I want to listen to all my rock songs and I have my songs filed under soundtrack it doesn't pick it up.

Ruth,
A slight of hand which might solve your problem...
When you pull up the info field for a given song (or a group of songs) you could choose to include the second genre in either the grouping category or in the comments category. Either will work fine. You can then create a playlist titled "Rock". You can drag all your library songs with the genre "Rock" into your playlist, and then you show sort your library on the "Grouping" column to find all the other songs that are "Rock" and drag those into your playlist.
Ed

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