Tagging classical music

[joster]

(20-02-2014 20:58)simoncn Wrote:  

(20-02-2014 19:45)joster Wrote:  Simon, could you please elaborate a little more on the composition and grouping tags? Can you exemplify your usage of those tags?

I'm use Mp3tag for tagging my music files (flac and mp3 for the portable player) and I can't find the composition and grouping fields.

Should I create new fields? In that case I presume they wouldn't be a "standard" tag?

joster

You can find more information about groups and compositions in this section.

To add these tags using Mp3tag, you'll need to create custom tag names.

For groups, the GROUP tag is treated specially by MinimServer. For compositions, you can use any tag name.

From reading the link I understand that Groups and Compositions are just the same. A single tag/field used to keep the different parts of a musical work "together". You can name it Group or Composition.

Yet, on your tagging scheme you use a "Group tag" (point 8) and a "Composition tag" (point 9)

Quote:8. Use the Group tag to group together any musical works with multiple movements that appear as consecutive tracks on the album. For example, I would tag each of the four movements of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 as Group=Symphony No. 5 and Composer=Beethoven. For some large musical works, I've used multiple groups rather than a single group.
9. Use the Composition tag for all multi-movement musical works, whether or not they're grouped. (They won't be grouped if they're not consecutive tracks.) Don't include the composer in the composition name.

Why? To deal with consecutive and non-consecutive tracks? Using two distinct tags one will end up with musical works with several parts spread between the Group and Composition tags.