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As I have written previously I would love to have some way of tagging functionality in iTunes.

Right now my setting looks a bit like this:

• I use the “Grouping” field for my tags. The tags I am currently using are things like “slow fox” or “rumba” as I am currently cataloging my collection of ballroom dance music. But I will be using tags like “electro” or “typical latino” or whatever to actually describe the styles of the songs - just to get much better and faster search functionality when I really need to find some music that is similar, e.g. when I am preparing music to play at a dancesport competition.
• There are some cool apple scripts out that allow adding and deleting single tags from the fields “grouping” or “comments”. The scripts I use are really useful, but far from really what I want (see below). Nevertheless - they are pretty close in functionality and the only thing that is out there (yet.)

What I really would like:

• A posting interface like the experimental posting popup from del.icio.us. The features I want are:
  • simple tag creation. just type the tag into some form field and it is created
  • re-use of old tags. show a list of tags that I have used before, and make them clickable!
  • make the selected tags stand out from the list so I can de-select them again!
• Some additional features for the interface:
  • Give me the choice to group tags. e.g. “Dance” (would group Waltz, Cha-cha, Salsa). This way I can easily select tags that are sorted in categories.
  • Give me the choice to rename tags easily.
• Some other stuff I would love to do with these tags:
  • playlist creation based on tags - easy, fast and useful - a “there is no step 3″-approach.
  • find similarities based on tags, make music recommendations, hey, make shuffle take into account music similarity and/or diversity! (How about a setting that goes like: shuffle my music, make 5 songs similar then completely switch to a different style and do another 5 songs!)