Tagging classical music

[gnomus]

As someone who is new to ripping/streaming, I hesitate to post. I am ripping my “contemporary” CDs first, whilst I think about how best to do the classical. I have a large number of classical CDs, and a substantial number of these are operas. I will often have a number of different versions of the same piece, including multiple versions of some operas with different conductors, or even the same conductor but from a different year.

The problems I anticipate are as follows:

1) I will make tagging mistakes. Therefore, it is important that I can find the files easily after ripping. It will be easier, therefore, if all of my Beethoven (to take one example) is in one subdirectory on the NAS.
2) When I browse my library on my tablet, I want to see all copies of the Beethoven Violin Concerto next to one another in the list. However, I don’t want to see all 5 versions of the 1st movement, followed by the 5 versions of the second movement and so on.
3) I want my Beethoven Piano Concertos to show me all the versions I have of Concerto 1, then Concerto 2, and so forth. Similarly for the sonatas.
4) When it comes to opera, I will have Act 1 and Act 2 in different folders even if on the same CD. Conversely, I will combine all tracks for an Act into one folder (even if split across 2 CDs).
5) Wagner’s Ring consists of 4 operas which are not in alphabetical order. I want each version of the Ring to appear together on the library list.
6) I want to be as future-proof and as idiot-proof as possible. I only want to have to do this once, and I don’t know what technology/software/hardware will be around in a few years’ time. (I think that means keeping things as simple as possible.)

So, to achieve this (I hope), my plan is:

A) Under “Album Artist”, I will put the name of the composer “Beethoven” (my Beethovens, Schuberts and so on should now be easy to locate on the NAS when it comes to repairing faulty tags.
B) If I have a CD with, say, the Beethoven and the Brahms Violin Concertos, I will split these into two “albums” with identical cover art.
C) Under “Artists”, I will put a list of the various artists appearing on the CD – singers and so forth (and probably the conductor).
D) Under “Album”, I hope to sort out the subdirectory issues by using the following naming scheme (I use a Bruckner Symphony as an example):

Bruckner - Symphony No. 5 (ed. Haas) [Celibidache; Münchner Philharmoniker - 1993]

This should list all of my versions of Bruckner Five together, then all of the Bruckner Sixes and so on.

E) For my Ring operas I will use the following scheme - making use of the WWV (equivalent to Opus) numbers:

Wagner WWV 86: Ring [19xx - Conductor; Venue] A: Rheingold
Wagner WWV 86: Ring [19xx - Conductor; Venue] B: Walküre – Act I (II and III)
Wagner WWV 86: Ring [19xx - Conductor; Venue] C: Siegfried – Act I (II and III)
Wagner WWV 86: Ring [19xx - Conductor; Venue] D: Götterdämmerung – Act I (II and III)

Again, all four parts of my 1956 Knappertsbusch Ring should appear on the Library list, followed by all four parts of my 1958 Knappertsbusch Ring, then all four parts of the 1970 Karajan Ring, and so on. Using the WWV numbers will have the advantage of keeping the other Wagner operas in approximate date order, so:

Wagner WWV 111: Parsifal [1990 - Schneider; Bayreuth] - Act III

I think this should work. But I am, however, a beginner and I would appreciate any pointers. Am I making it too complex or too simple? Is there a better way of achieving what I want to achieve? Certainly, if I'm making a big mistake with my thinking, I would prefer someone point it out to me now, rather than half-way through the rip!

Apologies once again for making such a lengthy post.