How to organize and tag classical music

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(10-10-2014 16:03)Dieter Stockert Wrote:  There may be good reasons for keeping an album in its original form. But in the days of playing music from a hard disc the concept of an album is obsolete, at least with the majority of classical music. So why not get rid of it?

With non-classical I often play albums.

With classical I also play many recital albums. With major works such as Symphonies less so, but with shorter pieces I often still play a whole Album. The booklet is also in Album form, so it matches what I have filed on disc and may wish to play.

So the point for me is that I don't want to lose the Album concept. I want to keep all my options open. Who knows what groups of items I might want to play in 10 years time? If I dropped Albums I might just regret it one day, and that would seem to be somewhat careless of me, particularly when I had all the data available to keep it.

However, each to their own