Provided "forum server application" can easily be configured to handle it...

Separate category sections make it much easier to find what you're looking for - be it other people, info on new releases, etc.

It's a bit like walking into a music store and finding all the CD's lumped together - sequential access mode only... :-(

I only bother with music stores that provide categorised displays...

Another vote for more music genres...how about "New Age"?

I "fourth" the request for more genres. I realize some artists may be hard to categorize but anything would be better than only having the three categories available to us now.

I vote for a category for "female singer/songwriters that are not angry little brats or country fried"

I think that a Movie Soundtracks category should most definitely be added, and the first soundtrack I'd recommend would be that of American Beauty by Thomas Newman.