Music player with multiple artist/genre support?

Hi,
Can anyone tell me if any of the available media players support multiple values for tags? For example, a collaboration would be listed under both artists.
I find I never use genres because they tend to be really broad, or I have far too many. It seems the ideal solution to this would be a player that supported tags that behave like the type found on blogs etc. I still can't find a way to organise music that doesn't get unweildy with a large collection.
Does anyone have any suggestions for an app that can do this, or has similar functionality?
Thanks.
Fishondish

i was thinking of the same thing....
in my head, im developing a linux based car mp3 player with a custom interface (which i need to build), one of the things i was planning for the mp3 database, is support for tags.. not just the single genre, which seems insufficient...
anyway, not everything is lost, maybe make a feature request to the rhythmbox developers? right now i use rhythmbox's dynamic playlists to include stuff i want to group toguether, but its quite gruesome....

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