Way back in 2019 wer came up with a "new concept" for handling Classical Music in MC based on the introduction of some New Fields/Tags the primary one being "Composition".
As a big fan of Classical Music I contacted wer and asked him for more information/detail about his concept this led me to not only finally move all my Classical Music onto the PC; it also resulted, thanks to some changes Matt made to the way MC handles obtaining the content of library fields, in the creation of the First TrackInfo Plugin that could handle some of the requirements of Classical Music Fans.
Let's look at some of the existing areas that would also need changing to make MC even more Classical Music friendly:
The routine used to test if an Album is Complete.
When faced with a Box Set that contains more than around 28 CDs the routine will declare a Box-Set Incomplete, when it is actually complete, but rather strangely will declare a box set with less than 28 CDs Complete when CD1 is not present.
The Environments in DSP Studio >> Effects needs expanding.
A vast amount of Classical Music was written to be Performed in a Church/Cathedral and is often recorded in such buildings.
It would also require some DSP Settings/Effects to be applied at individual track level.
The organisation of the "out of the box" Modern Tag Window
Even though it has a "Classical" section the majority of the existing tags/fields associated with Classical Music are in the badly named "Advanced" section.
Media Center for Android iPhones, Gizmo and Remote - and this is one that applies to more than just Classical Music.
The existing designs do not lend themselves to providing the user with enough information about most Media Types and need redesigning to allow them to become more User Friendly and User Configurable.
Back in 2021 wer came up with a way of Automatically Parsing Compilation and Movement field/tag content from a properly Structured Track Name -
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,128884.0.html Unfortunately, it never really got past the design stage because there were more users against deploying something that involved them in using manual methods to restructure their existing tags than in favour of using it.
That is the conundrum facing any proposed change to Handling Classical Music - getting enough users to agree on a single strategy/approach to make it feasible.