Tarn;189527 Wrote: > CLASSICAL: > > I have a "small" classical collection of 100 discs or so, which I have > not yet ripped because its a pita. However, I'm finally getting > started and again am trying to work out a FLAC tagging strategy that > will work both for now and the future, with conversion to MP3 at least > not being horrible. And yes, I may break up or combine multiple discs > or albums to put pieces together that should be together, etc. > > So, not worrying about what I have ALBUM or TRACK or DISC set to, the > other important fields are: > > COMPOSER = "Composer" > CONDUCTOR = "Conductor" > BAND = "Particular Band, Ensemble, Orchestra etc." > > ARTIST = "Particular (Single) Performer" > > If the album is just a generic classical CD with lots of different > pieces by different performers (and possibly different Composers) then > I'll set the COMPILATION flag so all those artists don't get pulled > into my searchable list of artists. > > > If the album is mainly by one artist, with a couple tracks by other > artists I'll set the ALBUMARTIST tag (but drop it when converting to > MP3). > > Again, I'll probably need to include a CONTRIBUTING_ARTISTS tag with > multiple values which nothing will read and which will get dropped on > conversion to MP3.
If you have just 100 CDs, then you shouldn't have many duplicate pieces (i.e. by different orchestras/conductors), so your browsing is likely to be via composer only, I guess. Therefore, you can do what I do, which is have the composer as artist, and the piece as album (splitting up CDs into several albums). If you want, you could create playlists that have the original CD. Sorry but I know nothing about MP3 tags, but my system above works fine when I play FLACs on my (Rockbox) iPod. While it might be nice to see all my stuff by Karajan, say, I do not usually want to browse that way. Therefore, the reduced functionality of SlimServer is not a massive pain to me, although I have voted for ceejay's bugs as it would be really nice if it did work :) Adam -- adamslim SB3 into Derek Shek d2, Shanling CDT-100, Rotel RT-990BX, Esoteric Audio Research 859, Living Voice Auditorium IIs, Nordost and Anti-cables http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33823 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
