Listener Wrote: 
> I looked at Musicbrainz with some hope but they made a decision to store
> the Composer name in the Artist tag and place the major performer name
> in parens after the work name in the album field.
> 
> That choice to live with the Artist, Album, track title set of tags
> supported by most players removes any real value for this project.
> 
> Bill

I could not agree more with you.  All your comments agree spot on with
the problems I see with Musicbrainz and why the Musicbrainz data is not
really usable for classical music.  The problem is what can we do about
it.  It the developers at Musicbrainz are just not interested in
supporting classical music then one option is to fork the software and
the data.  However, this would be a drastic option and would require a
lot of work to keep the project going.  The best thing may be if we
could somehow work with Musicbrainz to put in support that allows us to
plug-in our own tables (performers table, composition table, etc.) and
our own bits of code.  Perhaps I need to familiarize myself with
Musicbrainz internals and come up with a proposal that allows support
of a classical music database while only have minimal impact on the
core of Musicbrainz.


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