Tagging classical music

[gnomus]

(14-04-2014 13:46)DavidHB Wrote:  I strongly support the points made by Simon in his last post.
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I'd also strongly support the use of the Genre tag advocated by Simon. If you are going to use it in this way, it is probably best to use only a small number of high level genre values (Classical, Pop, Jazz, Folk etc.), and not to sub-divide the Classical genre. MinimServer will work with multiple Genre values, but I find that that complicates browsing and isn't really helpful for me.

David

OK, I think I am beginning to see a way forward - although I am probably going to have to re-tag all of my non-classical, because they are all over the place "genre"-wise.

I still have one question though. For my classical music, what should I put in the AlbumArtist tag? I believe that if I leave it blank, then dbPoweramp will put the Album into a "Various Artists" subdirectory. By putting the composer name in AlbumArtist, I was forcing dbPoweramp to stick all of my Beethoven in a Beethoven directory, thus making it easy to find when I had to look for it to fix some tagging error.