Tarn;190667 Wrote: > I really don't want to use the ARTIST tag for COMPOSER, because I have a > number of albums with the same composer and a number of albums with the > same performer, which overlap. Also, I'm adding to my classical > collection faster than other genres so I want a system that can grow. > > I really want to be able to play all my music with Yo-Yo Ma as the > artist, or all my Dvorak music, or only Dvorak music by Yo-Yo Ma. > > This is all going on the assumption that Slim Server will at some point > allow me to search more intelligently -- looking at just Composers, just > Artists, etc.
you're getting into a fix here, IMHO, because you have fixed on "Artist" as being the principal performer of a piece of music. I don't see it that way, and feel correspondingly liberated. COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR, PERFORMER and BAND are all valid ways of tagging music and for classical music I (generally) use all of them. Think of ARTIST as being "information to be displayed on systems with limited display capabilities. It is not a replacement for the ENSEMBLE and PERFORMER tags, but typically will summarize them" (taken from http://reactor-core.org/ogg-tagging.html) or "The artist generally considered responsible for the work. In popular music this is usually the performing band or singer. For classical music it would be the composer." (taken from http://www.xiph.org/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html) In other words, ARTIST is the short summary of how you most often want to get at the music, which might be any of COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR or PERFORMER depending on the nature of the album. Ideally, of course, we want search and browse capabilities that give us full control over these matters - if we ever get it, ARTIST will become largely redundant. Until then, its very handy. > > Drat, I forgot the other piece of this, which was what tag I should use > to specify not the genre but the multiple instruments or instrument > types - say Cello, Quartet, Brass, etc. Okay, maybe I'm asking too > much. Try using multiple Genre values - you can happily have any multiple-overlapping scheme you like. For example tag something as "Classical;Romantic;Concerto;Piano" and you can then find it equally easily by browsing through any of those four genre values. HTH Ceejay -- ceejay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33823 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
