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Subject: Re: best practices for id3 tagging classical works
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On Mon, 02 Sep 2019 17:23:03 +0200, Lucius <Lucius_Ludicrus@home.com>
wrote:
>On Mon, 02 Sep 2019 00:30:48 -0600, Pete Zakato <Zakato@false.com>
>wrote:
>
>>ID tags are designed for pop music, not classical.
>>
>>For pop music, the info of interest is almost always artist, then song
>>name. So completing the tag with artist name in the Artist slot and
>>title in the Title field makes sense.
>>
>>For classical nusic, the info of greatest importance is almost always
>>the Composer, then the song name. For that to show up when the piece
>>of music is playing, one needs to enter the Composer name into the
>>Artist field.
>>
>I agree!
>You might put the performer data in the "album artist" field
>
>Lucius
>
>>Most people don't do it that way and instead but verbose info into the
>>Artist slot, so the info when playing looks something like
>>
>>Sir Neville Marriner- Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Symp
>>(truncated or scrolling)
>>
>>I redo the tags on my MP3s putting the composer's name as the Artist.
>>Then the info looks like
>>
>>Mozart, Symphony 40 - I. Molto Allegro
>>
>>Much more useful IMO.
>>
>>Just my preference.
>>
{snipped}
I have to agree, this is much better.
So, I created a new library through JRiver called Classical, then
flipped artist/album artist fields, and finally renamed the Album
field by removing the Composer and artist.
Reconfigured the display view to show Artist: Title
Arnold: Symphony 3, Op. 63 - I
Nice
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