Thanks. I think it is a valuable tag and I would have used it if it was in MJ. Seems like a no brainer for Classical music.
So if I have that tag stored in a file, there is no way to view it in MJ?
If not I guess I'll use Artist Album.
If not many folks use it, then why did IPOD implement it?
Apple put it into the iPod because iTunes supports it. When iPod firmware 1.2 first broke, supporting the composer tag, iPods were still officially mac-only.
One of my biggest gripes has been that Apple either chose not to include composer tag, play count, and sound check functionality with the PC iPod... or they just forgot. Musicmatch Jukebox, which ships with PC iPods, doesn't support any of this... it's something that only iTunes supports. Sure it's a little sour grapes... a little personal angst. But they've intentionally or unintentionally kept some iPod functions out of PC users hands. Bah.
This is why i'm so totally excited about Steve working on the iPod plugin! Not only will the iPod be integrated with the premier media player for PC, able to synch with playlists and smartlists just like iTunes (btw, MJ has had iTunes' "unique" smarlists since mid-2000), but all it'd take is the composer tag being implemented as a standard tag in MJ to make it work with the iPod too. Heck, MJ9 keeps track of play counts too -- I bet that one day, the iPod will be able to feed playcount updates to MJ, just like it does with iTunes.
Sure the plugin isn't done yet, but it's getting better every build. Stay tuned, there's good stuff for iPod users coming from MJ.