I built a template to organize my AI-generated songs

A tag template makes it possible to classify AI-generated songs by genre and subgenre, using a common marker to show they have already been tagged. The system covers styles like prog, pop, ambient or folk, and in some cases adds specific descriptors such as mellotron or midi.

Music generated with artificial intelligence is no longer a rarity. Tools like **Suno** or **Udio**, available since **2023**, allow you to create complete songs from a text description. The problem comes afterwards: when someone accumulates dozens or hundreds of files, sorting them becomes chaos.

## Tagging by genre and subgenre

One way to bring order is to assign each song a genre tag. The list can be long: **prog**, **pop**, **ambient**, **folk**, **chamber**, **electronic**, **jazz rock** or **krautrock**, among many others. Each tag works like a mental folder that lets you find what you are looking for without listening to every file.

The system gets more complicated when subgenres come into play. Under prog you find **symphonic prog**, **neo prog**, **dungeon prog**, **medieval prog** or **mellotron prog**. Something similar happens with pop: **synth pop**, **chamber pop**, **baroque pop**, **art pop** or **dream pop**. The parent tag is not enough if you want to tell them apart.

## A marker to know what has been classified

The practical detail is using a common marker. In the template, the letter **c** appears next to almost every category. That marker indicates the song has already been assigned a tag. Without it, the file remains pending review.

There is a striking exception: **electro pop** appears twice, once with the marker and once without. There is also one entry longer than the rest: **+(indie) newage mellotron midi magiudio**. That tag mixes several descriptors in a single line, something that breaks the logic of the rest.

## The underlying problem: AI does not classify on its own

AI-generated songs do not come with reliable genre metadata. The user has to listen and decide. A template like this does not solve the listening part, but it does spare you from inventing the category every time.

Classifying music is a subjective decision. Two people can tag the same song differently. The template does not eliminate that debate, it just organizes it.

## A system that grows with the catalog

The list includes more than **60 different tags**. That leaves room to classify almost anything, but it also invites you to create categories nobody will use. The risk is spending more time tagging than creating.

If the catalog keeps growing, sooner or later a tool will be needed that reads the metadata and searches by tag. A spreadsheet or a player with filters may be enough. The template is the first step, not the last.