artist display format

[antonmb]

(08-11-2016 05:15)erho Wrote:  Hello antonmb, please could you tell me how you exactly tag your classical and popular music files? I am also struggling by this tagging thing, I have much more popular music but also classical.

Hi echo,
Your first best option is to browse this thread, which has a wealth of information on tagging from people more proficient than me. If you're interested, I'm no expert, but this works for me:

Classical:
* Album Title: I stick as closely as possible to the original title as shown on the cover art but shorten composers to last name only.
* Album Artist: Composer's name (last name first as in "Hindemith, Paul”). Set to “Various Composers” when appropriate multiple on the same album
* Track artist: blank
* Composer: Composer’s name, reversed.
* Soloists: Any soloists.
* Conductor: Conductor
* Orchestra: All orchestras or ensembles like quartets, etc. I don't use the Ensemble field but you could do this for smaller groups.
* Chorus: Choir, Chorus - any vocal group
* Genre: all set to "Classical". Thinking of Style field for sub-genres, e.g. Baroque Chamber, Symphonic.
* Track title: show the work and the movement, delete any unnecessary repetition of album or soloists, etc.

Rock, Jazz, Pop, etc:
* Album artist: the main artist or group/band as listed on the album, not reversed. If more than one, e.g. “Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler,” “Doc & Merle Watson,” I list them that way. For compilation albums, Album Artist is set to “Various Artists.”
* Composer: composer if available
* Track artist: set to either the same as the album artist if it's only one artist or band, or multiple track artists added when they exist or for compilation albums. For example the album "Neck and Neck" by Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler is set up like this:
- Album Artist: "Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler"
- Track Artist:
- Chet Atkins
- Mark Knopfler
* Genre: standard large groupings like Rock, Jazz, Folk, Celtic, etc. I try to avoid too narrow genres like Swing, Bebop, Post-bop, etc.

All:
* Year: user only, no month
* Grouping: box set names
* Description: I set this field with the year and month acquired the album, in the format “YYYY-MM,” for example 2016-01 or 2016-11. In the IndexTags in Minimserver properties I’ve added “Description:Recently Added,” which indexes by this field and displays it as “Recently Added” so I can browse my library by when albums were added and find recent acquisitions easily.
* For multi-disc sets, add “(Disc 1),” “(Disc 2),” etc. to the end of the album title, also make sure the Disc Number and Total Discs fields are populated.