Listener;164705 Wrote: > whether you settle for the limited facilities that most players provide > or do you look for tools that provide what you need. > > My own list of essentials for playing classical music are > > - separate Composer and (performing) Artist tags. Agreed, and Artist needs to be capable of multiple values (meaning the management/streaming applications need to be compatible with this).
> > - An Album name this is JUST the work name "Symphony No. 9" without the > composer's name or the performer's name added. I want to see a list of > 9 symphonies for Beethoven not 100 albums like "Beethoven - Symphonhy > No. 9 Karajan". Yes, and it's important to distinguish between a CD entity (which can contain several works by different composers) and the work entities themselves. So Beethoven's 9th Symphony could be either or both, depending, whereas a single Chopin Nocturne would be the latter but almost certainly not the former. > > - I want to browse and select by Composer, then Album, then Artist. > Sometimes, I want to browse by Artist, then Composer, them Album. More specifically, I'd usually like to browse/select by Composer, then Work, then Artist. Other times I'd like to browse/select by CD (e.g., "18th Century Harp Concerti"), or something like Era (e.g., Baroque -- although I'd probably go to the trouble of creating playlists for eras), and at still other times by Instrument (e.g., Piano, although this could happen via a playlist as well). > > - gapless playback, no fading, silences preserved. > > - grouping all tracks that make up one performance so that I hear them > all in the right order. > > - a good UI that lets me see what works and performances of them I > have. Agreed on all of these... > > At the time I got serious about ripping my 2000 CD collection, SB/SS > just didn't meet my standards. I tried out SS/Softsqueeze quite > thoroughly. I contributed to threads on this forum and supported > Ceejay's suggestions for enhancement. No action on those. > > I used J. River Media center 11 (MC 11) for ripping and editing tags > and didn't worry about using SS/SB for the present. Now I'm using MC > 11 to play music. MC 11 is heaven for classical music listeners. > > Slimserver is better suited to classical music now with the Custom Scan > and Custom Browse plug-ins. And there is a MC 11 plugin to route output > from MC 11 to Slimserver and then to an SB. Maybe I'll get around to > using an SB when I go to a multi-room setup. I certainly admire the > work Sean and his company have done. > ... > > Bill Thanks for your observations, Bill. I don't have a Slim setup yet, but I'll consider your approach (although I'm likely to run SS under Linux...not sure if that screws up the MC11 idea). I went off on a tangent to look into Matroska tagging/organization. Lots of good ideas there, and would be nice if SS fully supported it (it seems to be on the way of solving a LOT of problems, and would give SS a path into other streaming digital types -- like video -- if Logitech wanted to take it in that direction. -- Balthazar_B ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Balthazar_B's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7366 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30859 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
