Tagging classical music

[simoncn]

(24-04-2014 09:17)gnomus Wrote:  As I continue to "rip", I keep coming across new niggles, etcetera. Ripping and Tagging the non-classical was a breeze compared to the classical tagging.

I have a lot of Opera recordings. I have been entering Artists names and this has been working well. One thing that would be nice, however, would be to be able to see the "Role" that that Artist played in a particular recording. For example, when I am playing my 1962 Knappertsbusch Parsifal, it would be nice to be able to see that Amfortas was sung by George London (actually I am using London, George), and that Parsifal is being sung by Jess Thomas, and so on.

When listening to CDs I may be impressed by Amfortas and want to remind myself who was singing that role (I cannot remember who sung every role on each recording I have). With CDs I can just look at the brochure. I can see that this is one thing that I would miss by streaming everything.

Is there a way of doing what I would like to do?

It's easy to tag artist roles and have MinimServer send these to your control point. Unfortunately, it's quite unlikely that the control point will be able to handle this information in any useful way.

As an example, if you want to tag a soloist for an album, you can use a Soloist tag (or multiple Soloist tags). In MinimServer, you can add Soloist to either indexTags (if you want a Soloist index) or to itemTags (if you don't want a Soloist index). To identify Soloist as an artist role, you would add

Soloist.displayRole={artist}

to the tagCustom property. With these settings, MinimServer will send your soloists to the control point as artist roles. Unfortunately, I don't know of any control points that would show you this information on the Now Playing screen.