Listener Wrote:
> >
> Select Album for next browse ==> list of 100+ albums
> (of the form "Beethoven - Symphony 3 - Szell - 1958")
> I can't type one letter an jump because they all start with Beethoven.
> I wade through the whole list and pick the extact work and performer I
> want.
>
> I'm done but the last step was a killer! I'd probably give up before
> finishing. If my wife was selecting music, she would give up and come
> kick me for my bad choice of the system.
>
So why stop there? If you know what you want, make a further selection
by Conductor and/or Ensemble? That would get the list down to
something manageable!
>
> - Why not browse for conductor before work?
> When you get a sizeable library, you don't remember everything in it.
> The point of a browse interface is to let the computer present choices
> rather than making you guess.
>
Agreed. My scheme would allow you to make selection by any of the
approved tags, in any order.
>
> - If SS depends heavily on the album name internally, why not put the
> short Work name in a different tag? That would let you browse on a
> long unique album name, keep SS happy and I could browse on a different
> tag with a short, non-unique work name.
> This work tag is analogous to the album nme as you proposed but it
> could probably be wedged into the contributor table with a different
> role. UGLY but it is a thought.
Unfortunately the official recommended tag list isn't available just at
the moment, but I have seen reference to a "TITLE" tag in this context,
could be "Symphony 9". Wedging it into the contributor table is, as
you say, ugly. The neatest way would be to add this into a table as a
separate column, but this is now a database redesign (and the owners of
the DB schema are understandably reluctant to shove new data in for
every possible requirement). Maybe this could be a separate
enhancement request for a later date. [Edit: whoops! Silly mistake -
"title" is of course the track title, we can't reuse that...]
>
> As I understand it, you can make a single search step using the SB
> remote and display, then you get a list of album names to scroll
> through. It doesn't scale well.
>
> I'd just add composer and conductor (performer) to the list of tags you
> can browse and let it go at that.
Good! I think we're agreed on this point.
> For the web interface, the advanced search function could be extended
> with fixed fields for composer and conductor (performer). The genre
> portion should have a a textbox allowing the user to specify a value
> for an other genre in the dropdown list.
>
Or, if we are getting really fancy, SEVERAL Genre boxes in an AND or OR
configuration! EG "Romantic" and ("Concerto" or "Chamber"). But maybe
thats going a bit far... The current Advanced Search web page gives a
dropdown list populated with all the Genre values that have been found
in the database, thats a pretty good start.
Listener Wrote:
>
> - I need a tag that can describe the type of work (symphony, concerto,
> string quartet, chamber music) so that I can split of the works by one
> composer. Can I use Genre for this purpose?
>
Yes. See my notes on multiple genres. We'd need "genre" to be
included in the extended browsing functionality that we have been
debating.
Regards
Ceejay
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