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Discussion: Classical Music
flac.rules:
I have done it almost the same way you do it for some years with a couple of diffrences
1. I don't have any more genres than "classical"
2. I usually try to put the most important performer in the title of the album, as I want it to be pretty understandable when just using "basic tags" also, so in you expample it would be something like. "Brandenburg Concertos 1-6 (English Chamber Orchestra feat. conductor: Benjamin Britten)"
John Gateley:
Thanks for all the suggestions.
What I have been considering is a separate database. Lookup would access both, returning the best match, but submission would be to one or the other.
Design and implementation is a fairly large task...
j
darichman:
--- Quote from: John Gateley on March 27, 2008, 09:02:45 am ---Thanks for all the suggestions.
What I have been considering is a separate database. Lookup would access both, returning the best match, but submission would be to one or the other.
Design and implementation is a fairly large task...
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Can only imagine...
Take your time... classical music isn't going anywhere :)
ThoBar:
--- Quote from: darichman on March 27, 2008, 09:26:26 am ---Can only imagine...
Take your time... classical music isn't going anywhere :)
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... I hope it's still going forward at least ;-)
Frobozz:
I don't know how those of you with big classical collections managed to get everything ripped and tagged. It takes a lot of time. I'm in the middle of ripping my classical CDs. I have about 200 classical CDs and have about 40 to go till I'm done. It's a project that has stretched on for months.
I'm going to have to digest some of those ideas for tagging and organization. Once I get everything ripped and the basic tags and the cover art, I'm going to have to go through and organize and fix things that are inconsistent.
My basic tagging has been to put the composers last name in the Artist field. That seems to make the most sense for interoperability with other media players and with portables. All players support the Artist field and can sort or organize by artist. Makes it convenient for browsing by composer in other players.
The full name of the composer goes in the composer field.
Performers have gone into the Conductor tag. I'll put the conductor and orchestra there and/or soloists or primary performers there.
The Name tag gets filled with a big long string of text giving the name of the work and the movement, etc. It makes for a bit of a mess. I'll have to clean that up later.
What's a good way for dividing up the whole audio library amongst rock, jazz, classical, etc. to make it easy and convenient to jump from one to the next?
What I have right now is a filed called mylibrary that contains a list: rock;jazz;classical;other
Then I have various view schemes that display just rock or just classical or just jazz or just other. That works, but I'm open to other ideas for other methods. I'm still a newbie to the ways of Media Center.
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