Orchestra Tag

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(26-06-2012 09:12)simoncn Wrote:  So my suggestion is to use Orchestra for this tag rather than Ensemble. If you want to see it as Ensemble in your control point, a future release of MinimServer will give you a way to do this.

Hi Simon,
while it would of course be possible to tag ensembles other than orchestra in the Artist tag this would create some other inconsistancies. Let me take the example of an opera. Here you have a number of soloists, which in our Minim definition we would tag under "Artist", we would have one (or more) chorus(es), which I would prefer not to also submit to the "Artist" tag but put under "Ensemble", we have an Orchestra and a Conductor, which both go into the equally-named tags.

So I would agree with Wammer here, that really the *perfect* option would be what you described under option 2, ie that Minim supports both, Orchestra and Esemble tags and than feeds a string containing the following info to the Artist field if the control point:

"Artist(1), Artist(2), Artist(3), Artist(4), Ensemble(1), Ensemble(2), Orchestra, Conductor"

That would be just perfect

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NB: That of course could well mean, that if you dont have a soloist but just an Orchestra and a Conductor, the Artist tag stays blank, but if Minim feeds the "Orchestra, Conductor" string into the Artist field for control point purposes, that would not be an issue at all.