Folks, I am looking for simple advice here: Since the SB2 now offers native support for gapless playback via FLAC, I have started to move my classical music collection onto the PC - and I have hit an archiving wall:
It seems quite clear from the various PC music players on offer (SlimServer just being a case in point) that these tools were invented by folks who primarily listen to pop music. In pop music, most people equate the artist to the composer, or simply do not care for the latter. This does not work for classical music. When starting my classic music archive, I have taken to assigning the composer name to the artist tag (shunting the artist into the comments). This considerably facilitates retrieval through the artist/album focussed SB2 interface. But this is still unsatisfactory. Like many classic buffs, I suspect, I have the same piece of music recorded by various artists, in which case the concept breaks down. What do you guys do? Prefixing the artist name to the song title is do-able, but the eternal scrolling on the player display that invariably follows is ever so slightly tedious. In general, I was wondering whether some future piece of SS s/w could perhaps offer to configure an extra directory level (for the composer) in the music library? Also, I would find it helpful if the access to album and artist in the player interface could be pre-filtered by my choice of genre. If I go into genre at the present time, I automatically end up accessing the sub-level by artist. What if I wanted Album? Composer? Thanks - ovr. -- ovonrein ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ovonrein's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2130 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17877 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
