Tagging classical music

[Dieter Stockert]

I spend a lot of work in tagging my classical music collection. At the same time I have to admit that I browse only in Minim server's folder view. Why that? Because I find it much too complicated (and restricted) to make it fit my needs and that's the same with the control apps. And another reason is that we can only tag in a 'flat' way. We have no 'relational' way of tagging, we don't even have some kind of hierarchy. For example you may have an artist playing forte piano as a soloist on one recording and harpsichord on another plus he is director on that one too, and maybe he's only part of an orchestra on another recording. Instead of having one entry if you browse for artist tag you will have him multiple times in the artist list. The same is with genre. There are dozens of genres for rock, pop and so on, but only one for classical music, but we would need sub genres like sonata, oratorio, concerto, symphony, chamber music and much more, plus additional sub-sub genres like horn concerto, sonata for violin and piano, flute trio, string quartet ...