>the vast majority of marketshare apps and DB sources uses the composer >tag for denoting music's authors. WMP, winamp, AMG, Gracenote, etc... >all fill out the composer tag when ripping or auto-tagging, and they do >so for all music, making no distinction between classical or popular. > That's contrary to my experience - most metadata sources don't include any original artist or songwriter tag information at all. Most often, I have to look it up and manually tag it myself.
In a similar way, metadata sources don't put the year that a song was originally released, only the date that the album was released. This can be quite significant on compilation albums. eg. a song originally released in 1960 that appears on a 2010 album will be seen as a song belonging in 2010. >strictly speaking, composer is not a classical term, but more >importantly, its a de facto standard. I never said composer was a classical term, only that I only use it for classical music. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
