How to organize and tag classical music

[simoncn]

(23-09-2014 18:57)swdick Wrote:  I am beginning to put my music on a NAS and am wondering what is the best way to organize it. So far I have put every CD (album) in a seperate folder within a COMPOSER-folder.
What I want however is to search (using Kinsky) as follows:
- composer - composition - performing artist.

I have a lot of compositions in different performances and want to see the several performances in Kinsky with their respective artist, conductor, orchestra to be able to choose the performance I like, e.g.
Mahler - Symfony No. 1 - Haitink, Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mahler - Symfony No. 1 - Chailly, Berliner Philharmoniker
etc.
What is the best way to organize my collection?
Would I need to group every performance or is this done by Minimserver as it is in a seperate folder anyway? If so how do I do that?

I have so far added a tag 'composition' to every file (with exectly the same name for the composition). Kinksy shows sometimes artist, composer or whatever but I cannot see any logic in what is shown.

Any suggestions?

With MinimServer, it's best to have separate tags for Composer, Composition and Artist. If there's more than one performing artist, you can either have mutliple Artist tags or you can use specific tags such as Conductor or Orchestra. For example, you could have:

COMPOSER=Mahler
COMPOSITION=Symfony No. 1
ARTIST=Haitink
ARTIST=Concertgebouw Orchestra

or you could have:

COMPOSER=Mahler
COMPOSITION=Symfony No. 1
CONDUCTOR=Haitink
ORCHESTRA=Concertgebouw Orchestra

This style of tagging allows you to take advantage of MinimServer's Intelligent Browsing capabilty to select by any tags in any order. You can also use tag formatting to combine these separate tag values into whatever information you want to see in your control point's playlist or Now Playing screen.

I'll stop now and let other people share the benefit of their experiences.