Morbeas wrote: 
> Proper tagging is absolutely key.  You also have to be consistent.  I've
> always put the composer in the COMPOSER tag and never had a problem.
> 
> http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Encouraged_Tag_Standards
> 
> Just to show how I tag my classical albums, I'm posting 2 screenshots. 
> One of the actual tags (extended tags view from MP3tag) and the other of
> how it's displayed in muso.
> 
> Question for you is how do you get your group headers displayed like
> that?

OK, thanks for that, but I'm not sure why Muso replaces Composer by
Album Artist in these circumstances. Re the Groupheaders, my scheme is
as follows. Every (classical music) track has an Opus tag (which has the
full title of the work, plus the opus number). Tracks are generally
named like this: "Opus: Movement". In the custom tag options (I use
LMS), Opus is mapped to Groupheader. This achieves the CD insert
appearance in the browser, and makes the SB touch display the Opus in
the title - this is necessary because I am making my album tags match
the actual albums, not the works (which I have found can get very
messy). Ideally what I would like is to customise the SB touch display,
but this seems infeasible. I should add that I am also making Movement
tags (using mp3tag actions to extract from Title) This gives me
flexibility to reconstruct Title tags in a different format if the need
arises. For similar reasons, I have CDName tags which hold the original
album name. That way I can name Album to be Opus or CDName using an
mp3tag action. Hopefully this will future-proof the tagging. Perhaps I
should consider a similar approach to Album Artist since, given the rule
you have referred to, it will be required in some cases if Album=CDName
but not if Album=Opus, however I can't see how to do this in mp3tag
since it requires the context of other tracks in the same album to
determine the result, whereas mp3tag operates on a track by track basis.
I should probably also split Opus into Work + Opus Number: this would
have the benefit of not having to use exactly the same words in the Opus
tag if I want Muso to group two versions of a work in the hierarchy.
Overall then, the approach I am leaning towards is to have custom tags
holding each significant metadata element and then automatically (in
mp3tag) constructing the standard tags in the way that optimises use by
the software I have at any time. Software may change over time, but I
don't want to re-tag again!


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