Tagging classical music

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(27-04-2014 11:10)gnomus Wrote:  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.

yes, I'd definitly keep all Acts of an Opera in one "Album" (ie Album = 'The Opera')

Good idea to use Grouping for Acts. I am using LUMIN as a control-point and unfortunatly it acts-up a bit on Grouping, so I just put the Act at the beginning of the description of each tag.

(27-04-2014 11:10)gnomus Wrote:  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.

Thats certainly one way to do it but it would confuse me. I prefer to see each Sonata separately (ie. Album = Sonata). It gives me the big advantage to see all performances of a certain sonata by different artists next to each other. Or I search by artist (ie Andras Schiff) and I get all albums (= Sonatas) recorded by him neatly showing up underneath each other.

As always, many ways to achieve meaningful results...

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