Philip Meyer;619391 Wrote: > I agree with a lot of what you say; I don't have a lot of classical > music, other than a few "Best of Classical" things. I don't really > understand classical music and how things are released as Works, etc. >
Think of audio books. They are organized in the store by the original author and book rather than the reader, who gets second billing. But people can be particular about the reader, so the reader should be somewhere on the cover. Each audio book might be made up of many chapters. Well, the analogy isn't exact, but in classical music the performers are in essence "reading" a "book" (the composer's score). And the book might be made up of multiple "chapters" (movements). And though the composer comes first, listeners can be very particular about the performers. (I call classical audio files that have no info about the performers "mystery meat.") You might have several works per album, each with multiple titles (movements), or the works might spill across albums. So neither "title" or "album" are adequate to organize works. > > simple Browse Composers would be a good simple step for most people > with at least shared pop/classical music collections. > I agree. Even those with large classical collections aren't necessarily going to be into doing a lot of custom tagging, so just composer->album will work fine for them. After all, that's how we usually organize things on a shelf. -- Daverz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Daverz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86452 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
