Tagging classical music

[gnomus]

(14-04-2014 10:23)simoncn Wrote:  

(13-04-2014 15:52)gnomus Wrote:  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!

In general this seems OK, assuming you are happy to have no connection between the works that originally constituted a single album.

However, I would question your decision to use AlbumArtist to represent the composer. I think this is likely to cause unexpected results with some control points and servers. If there some reason why you don't want to tag the composer using the Composer tag?

I read something on an Internet site about doing that. I have ripped a few classical CDs to test my system and it seems to work OK with Sonos, Kinsky and now Bubble.

One advantage is that it is not unusual for pop and rock songs to have several composers, some named "[First Name], [Last Name]", some the other way around and some just by last name. As a result the Composers section gets very cluttered. I have been toying with removing all composers from the pop/rock stuff - this would give me a quick way then of finding my Classical music separate from the pop/rock. Do you know if this is an approach favoured by others?

The other thing with the AlbumArtist field, is if I populate this with, say, 5 or 6 artists then I will get messy folders in the "Artists" view in the Control Points I have tried. It seems best to limit this field to just one Artist.

I'd be interested to hear your counter-argument though, as it is not too late for me to rethink my approach.