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FenceFurniture:

--- Quote from: dtc on November 11, 2019, 07:14:14 am ---The library is build for just this type of task.  It is much easier to manage one library than two, as Dennis points out.  I would experiment with various tagging and view schemes before separating the library into two.
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Ok, thanks for that. I have previously put a "z" before their surnames in the Album Artist tag, so that in Artist display all the Classical composers are grouped together at the end of the list. For the moment I will persist with that, and not start a second library. In the Genre tag I have used Classical across the board, so I can use that display if I wish. (it's very quick to take the "z" out if I wish to - but so far I haven't found it intrusive or problematic in any way)

I thought about using Composer but looking at that just now it brings up far too many one track composers from people like Andrea Bocelli, Pavarotti, 3 Tenors etc where they are performing works from a bunch of different people on the same CD.

The other thing I am doing is including years in the folder names as well as the tags. Given that I have extremely limited knowledge (so far) of Classical Composers I am finding this to be very instructive. So I have a folder within Mozart like:
Symphony #31 'Paris'  (1779)  (p1988)

The second date is the performance year. I am putting composition years in the Date tag so that in JR they all display in career order, which is also enlightening for me. The (p1988) goes at the end of the Album Name which gives me everything in the heading in JR and also chronologises two performances of the same work.

Thus, I have learnt that Captain Arthur Phillip would not have heard Mozart's Symphony 40 or 41 as "new releases" because he was busy establishing Sydney Town in the new colony of Australia in 1788, when they were written :D

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