Orchestra Tag

[simoncn]

(27-06-2012 20:06)Raphaël Thévenin Wrote:  Couldn't it be possible to use the "performer" tag (some taging softwares provide this tag) to record the soloists ? This allows to separate the individual performers from the orchestra.

Thanks very much for this suggestion.

At the moment, if people want to tag this information, I believe they generally use the Artist tag to do this. If there are multiple performers, they use repeated Artist tags, one for each performer.

I understand that some people might prefer to use the Performer tag for this information instead of the Artist tag. If you want to do this, you can add Performer to the MinimServer indexTags property. After making this change to indexTags, if you have Performer tags in your music files, you'll see a Performer entry in the MinimServer index, but you won't see Performer information in the artist information string that's sent to the control point.

As I said in earlier posts on this thread, I'd prefer not to change this at the moment. Instead, I'm going to try to start discussions with content providers (record companies and music databases) about the best way to put this information into music files. If the result of these discussions is that the Performer tag should be used for this, I'll be happy to make the necessary changes to MinimServer.

I'd welcome any more comments or suggestions for how this information should be tagged.