Optional new tag: (age) rating

[MairusuPawa]

Suggestion

Have a new, optional song tag allowing users to filter songs according to a content rating, à la ESRB/MPAA etc. Karaoke software could then implement some form of parental control and block mature content.

Because I've got no better idea, I think this should be kept pretty vague and I'd propose only three levels:

• kids
• teens (-ish) / "general audience" but infants
• adults only

Use case

I've been asked a lot of stuff about the song packs I publish.

• I've had parents wanting their kids to just enjoy cartoon songs designed for kids (that's your "Baby Shark" - sorry)
• I've had larger crowds enjoying a large variety of songs with more mature themes, such as "AndTheRainfall - Simple Words"
• I've had someone write up a song file for songs such as "PTS - Made For Me", and telling me "maybe you shouldn't actually add it to the song pack"

That last point is why I'm now writing this ticket. Investigate only if you're daring enough.

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No response

[basisbit]

some things to keep in mind:
Unfortunately there is no world-wide unified age restriction standard. Some things are rated for example 18+ in some states of the USA while being rated 6+ in Germany while being rated illegal for any publication in Singapore. Afaik this is the main reason why all attempts at defining and establishing age rating meta tags for websites were not successful.
Some tools (for example parental control tools) try to resolve this by allowing to specify multiple region code -> age rating relations. However when someone creates a txt file, they'll probably not want to look up the ratings for this specific song in various countries to then add a rating per country code mapping to the txt file.

[Baklap4]

Sorry for the late response @MairusuPawa

Like @basisbit mentions there is no unified age restriction standard. This makes it pretty hard to define one and I think we're not going to be able to do that. Therefor i'm closing this issue with "Won't Fix". - Feel free to reopen this item if you have another suggestion or create a new ticket :)

However a solution to your problem can be to use the #TAGS header. This way you can mark your songs with Adult or NSFW. Karaoke software can have a built-in filter to not show certain songs, but i'm not sure if this is already implemented in one of the karaoke software listed. You can easily tag songs through USDB_Syncer if i'm correct @bohning feel free to correct me if i'm wrong.

[bohning]

I use tags=explicit in metatags on USDB, that's the flag they get on e.g. Apple Music (more precisely, they only have an E next to the title, which however stands for explicit).