adamdea wrote: > I have no particular beef with ÂrecordingÂ. I could take it or leave > it and find it tends to be inconsistently applied by metadata providers. > Then again it may be popular with non classical folk with multiple > reissues of the same recording. CanÂt you manage with ÂyearÂ?
Let me ask: Could you? Violin Concerto in f minor: 1950 1950 (cannot select this one, but it will played right after the first 1950. Yay?) 1955 1967 1980 1982 1990 1995 1999 2001 2009 2017 I don't know which is which. Do you? And this is just an example of twelve different recordings of this ONE concert. I think with Mendelssohn's violin concerto it would be something around 30 (the server is rescanning right now, so I have to guess. But I have a lot of recordings of this and Bach's violin concertos.) You may think "Then use artist!". Well, twelve different recordings, but only eight artist. So it would have to be artist and then year or artist and then album or I just scroll down to track 120 if it's an opera to start the other recording that year... And I'd still know nothing about the concert. That's why I (and everyone else with more then three disc of classical music) need the recording tag. They just don't know it, yet. Viktoria Mullova / Abbado / Some Symphony Orchestra (some year) Viktoria Mullova / Mullova Ensemble (some year, live) You need ARTIST, CONDUCTOR, BAND, and YEAR to identify a recording of a single WORK. That's how it's done for ages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Mendelssohn)#Recordings In pop music, you have an artist. That artist makes an album. In classical music, you have a composer. He composes works. Artists record this work, often more then once with different orchestras, conductors, etc. To put this information in one tag, you need a tag. I called it RECORDING. But as you said, it might me useful for others, too. As to the information "inconsistently applied by metadata providers": That will never go away and you'll always have to do manual work to some extend. adamdea wrote: > I would welcome any improvements however piecemeal, and suspect that > work would be the number 1 request of most folk. I believe the problem is to implement any new tag at all. If it's then two or three tags wouldn't really matter. (That's my guesswork, I could be totally wrong.) And again, I'm all for "custom" tags that people can use for whatever they want. Like browsing female singers only (customtag1=1), live albums only (customtag2=1), studio albums only (customtag2=0 or not set), browse only living artists, browse by their birthday, browse by special days (Date of birth or death)... whatever. I'm confident that people would come up with a lot ideas here. As for the menus, they could be build with adapting the "Sub-Library Demo" plugin. adamdea wrote: > Iif Michael is too busy then so be it, but if he should have a moment... Of course. I just dread the day that Erland's plugins stop working. QLMS [email protected] x64 (digimaster) with perl 5.28 dedicated to me. :D / QNAP 469L QTS 4.3.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dolodobendan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67663 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110708
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