Standards, a question there of

[plural]

so

I was organizing my Mp3 collection

and I noticed that there was no consistency
in the Genre tags

hell one confused schmuck
put the beastie boys
in "Christian music"

Now some genre "labels"
are fairly obvious

Classical
Rock
Jazz
Reggae

but then you have others which
seem to me to be very specific
sub-genres of a great genre

so what I want to know
is what in your opinions
are the top level genre

For example Jazz would be the top level genre of Acid Jazz

I want to keep it fairly simple
so
please let me know what you would consider
are the top level genres?

also
does anyone know of a web site
that lists genre info for various groups?

I tried CDDB but they don't seem
to want to share with the public directly
instead preferring to
brag about all the companies
that sell their products

basically what I need
is something that will give me reliable genre information
for groups that I am less familiar with
so I can still classify them


thanks in advance