Tagging classical music

[simoncn]

Hi Mike,
Thanks for posting this very detailed description! See responses below.

(30-12-2012 20:09)Mike48 Wrote:  I am not quite sure why one would need both "Group" and "Composition" tags. Care to elaborate?

In most cases, the Group and Composition tags will be the same. However, there are a few cases where they might not match exactly:

1) If the tracks aren't consecutive, they can't be grouped, so Composition is necessary. I have a few albums like this, where the movements of a Mass are interspersed with other items.

2) The Group (or Title) tag might contain additional information about the specific recording or performance. For example, I have two recordings of Allegri's Miserere, one with additional embellishments and one without. This happens to be a non-grouped item, but the same thing could apply to a group.

3) If the library contains multiple recordings of the same composition, it might be useful to put additional information in the Group tag for quick selection of the desired recording.

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The lack of standardization among databases is frustrating.

Very much so!

Quote:JRMC considers Artist a single-value field, but displays it as a list field if values are separated by ";".

Is this actually a single-value field in the file, with physical ';' separators? If so, this won't work well with MinimServer.

Best regards,
Simon