I basically agree with this last post. Slimbox/Slimserver doesn't appear to be designed with organizing Classical music in mind. So whatever you do it's a compromise. I have a large Classical music collection and I do the available iTunes fields in the following way.
Name (i.e. Track) = Movement or Song name (ex. 1. Allegro) Artist = Composer (ex. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadaus (1756-1791)) Composer = Orchestra and Conductor (ex. Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, John O'Conor (piano)) Album = Piece (ex. Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K.491) Grouping = Album Name (ex. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 & No. 24, John O'Conor) I too use Custom Browse, but mainly for setting up personal menus, not for doing anything special for Classical music. As the previous poster mentions, the tags that you get automatically are not usually very good. I just retag to consistently abide by the scheme above. This works out very well. ceejay;224872 Wrote: > You need to start by recognising that none of this stuff was designed > with classical music in mind. That done, you can move on to solving > your problem: its not too hard and you don't have to throw away any > information. > > If "Artist" is the main search field you are going to use (and > Slimserver makes that a natural thing to do) then just make sure that > Artist always contains the data you are going to want to search on. > For classical music that's usually the composer, for non-classical its > usually the performer/band. > > So let iTunes fill in the Composer and Band tags, and let it fill in > Artist with whatever it will. Then, for Classical music, simply ensure > that the Band/Performer tags have the right data in, and copy Composer > to Artist. You can set up a very simple action script in mp3tag, for > example, to automate this. > > This might be a little extra work, but it is probably insignificant > compared to the work you are doing anyway (should be doing!!) to fix > the rubbishy information that is always downloaded for classical > albums... > > YMMV > Ceejay -- Gildahl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gildahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38119 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
