The answer is why not? More and more applications are using dedicated tags
to better sort music. For a classical music lover, the ability to add
Composer, Conductor, Orchestra, etc.. are important and many taggers allow
the user to do that.
At the end of the day, you can always disable these tags in the conf file.

On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Max Kellermann <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2016/03/05 13:37, Joerg Raftopoulos <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > a patch to increase the number of metadata in MPD. More a basis for
> > discussion as a finished product. So far, only ID3 support.
>
> Why?
>
> The MPD core tags are supposed to be a very small set of tags.  If any
> client needs more than that, it can use the "readcomments" command to
> read a list of all name/value pairs.
>
> Adding a new core tag must be well justified.  What we certainly not
> need is to add each and every tag to the core list.
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