Tagging classical music

[gnomus]

(24-04-2014 22:52)bbrip Wrote:  ...
Hi gomus,

I also have a lot of opera recordings and was tinkering around with the Soloist/Role assignment tagging before. ....

I have not found a solution for this, but I have rethought my approach to the way I handle my Opera Recordings. I was going to put each Act into a separate "album" (see previous posts). However, I realise that a better way is to put the whole opera into one album and use the "Group" tag to form groups called Act I, Act II, and so on.

This will make the CP interface much neater in use.

The "Group" tag proved to be a godsend when it came to tagging my "Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas" box sets (three versions).

[PS]

If you are interested, I decided to rip my Complete Beethoven Sonatas in the following way:

1. On the CDs the order of the Sonatas is random - this is not good, so...
2. Everything will be ripped to the same Album (and Folder on the Hard Drive)
3. So that I can find everything in the CP and to correct tagging errors, all the sonatas will be ripped in the correct order.
4. To do this, I will use Track numbering, using the first two digits for the Sonata number (01-32), and a final digit for the movement. Hence, the Seventh Sonata tracks become 71, 72, 73 & 74; the movements of Sonata 32 are 321 & 322.
5. I use the Group tag to tag each Sonata

This results in One album on the Control Point - when I go into that album I should find all 32 Sonatas grouped in the correct order.

It sounds like more work than it is, and as seems usual with classical, the main problem was the available metadata - Art and so forth.

I don't know if this is the best way of doing this. I'd certainly be interested if there was an even easier way.