Tagging classical music

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(27-04-2014 18:42)simoncn Wrote:  

(27-04-2014 18:10)bbrip Wrote:  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.

You can do this by tagging each sonata as a Composition as well as a Group. This allows you to search by Composer and then by Composition (and Artist if you want) to get this exact display.

In my opinion that is an excellent suggestion (also to tag the artist / pianist in that case). That will allow you for example to compare Nelson Freire's Waldstein sonata to Maurizio Pollini's, to name just one example. I find these comparisons very interesting, in particular if you play these works yourself. And that would be for me one of the best added values of a digitised music library - to do that without having to rummage through tons of CDs (and you usually find the one you're looking for just when the wife calls you to dinner!).