erland;578728 Wrote: > Could you explain why you want the instrument. > > I suspect most musicians (including jazz musicians) only play a single > instrument ? > > So do you really want to know that Mel Lewis is the drummer or would it > be enough to know that Mel Lewis is participating ? > > I was thinking that it might be useful to just be able to specify the > main instruments that contributes to the characteristics of the music. > So you for example can find jazz tracks with a saxophone. > That's very reasonable. I listed this as a "nice to have" rather than as a "must have" for the sorts of reasons you give.
However, I do find several real advantages for having the instruments. I often find myself listening to a piece and hearing a great trumpet solo, for example, and I think "Who did that solo? I'd like to hear more of his solos." I then look in the track comments and see who the trumpet player was. Since it is often someone I've never heard of before, just having a list of sidemen doesn't tell me who it is. This is a very common scenario, especially since I have many compilation CDs, like the awesome Jazz Masters series. This works OK just in the comment, and not in the metadata, but the SW engineer in me says it would be nice to capture in the metadata. It also occurs to me that the Soloist tag might be relevant, in case there are multiple trumpet players. Another reason is that jazz players are often multi-instrumentalist, especially related instruments. Personally, I often prefer to listen to Allan Holdsworth play the guitar, rather than his ubiquitous Synthaxe. Likewise, it is not uncommon to be in the mood to listen to Oscar Peterson play the piano rather than the Fender Rhodes. Again, none of these are showstoppers, but a nice way to handle it would be genuinely appreciated by your users (at least this one). > > > Could you explain which menu hierarchies you have setup in Custom > Browse and how you use it when playing jazz music ? > Nothing fancy, I just set up my Jazz library so it can be browsed by either artist or performer (if you want something more complicated, ask how I set up classical :) ) > > > Don't worry about tags, we plan to have a user interface where you can > manage the metadata, so we aren't limited to what can be put inside > tags. It's more a question about how much metadata it's realistic that > users are willing to setup. Import possibilities from good metadata > sites will of course make it little bit easier. I realize that I go a little overboard entering all the metadata, but I like to think I'm not the only fanatic ;) Thanks for looking into this. This is all awesome. -- mps ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mps's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36351 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81898 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
