Tagging classical music

[simoncn]

(14-04-2014 11:57)gnomus Wrote:  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 best way to separate your classical music from pop/rock is by using the Genre tag.

If you are sure you will never want to see any pop/rock composers or browse or search on them, it's OK to remove Composer tags from your pop/rock albums.

Many pop/rock albums are tagged with AlbumArtist, so you will run into a similar "clutter" problem if you use AlbumArtist for your classical composers.

Quote: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.

WIth MinimServer, you need to limit AlbumArtist to a single value because MinimServer doesn't accept multiple values for AlbumArtist. There is no problem with using multiple values for Artist.

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

Some control points and servers are able to display composer information if the Composer tag has been used. In future, I expect this to become a more widespread practice.

Some control points and servers (including MinimServer) conflate AlbumArtist and Artist tags for indexing and/or display purposes. If the AlbumArtist tag has been used for composer information, this is likely to produce confusing results.