th00ht;272620 Wrote: > After looking through the "Beginners Guide" wiki I have the following > remark. It is my firm believe that the artist of a "Classical" track > should be the interpreter not the composer. The composer's name can > optionally prefix the album name. > > The main reason is that for "Pop" music this is rather common. I have a > whole (nice) album with Depeche Mode covers (yes, "For the Masses"). Now > you would not tag as artist for the Smashing Pumkins cover of "Never Let > Me Down Again" as "Depeche Mode", would you? The artist in this case is > "Smashing Pumpkins" composer would be Depeche Mode (or perhaps Martin > Gore). So one might tag the album as "Depeche Mode - For the Masses". > > For the same reason I tag Lynn Harrells interpretation of Johann > Sebastion Bach's Suites for Violoncello with artist "Lynn Harrell", and > composer "Johann Sebastian Bach". The Album gets the name "Bach - Cello > Suites", which btw is the same album title "Steven Isserlis" > interpretation gets so that they appear side to side when I browse by > Album. > > ...Oh, it would be a perfect world when everyone agreed with me...
I've lost count of the number of times we've had this debate... If you feel strongly, write up an alternative classical tagging scheme in a wiki page and cross-reference it! The only thing we are likely all to agree on is that we are trying to use a system (Slimserver) for doing something it was never really designed to do, which is to handle classical music. To do this properly you would want it to handle PERFORMER, CONDUCTOR, COMPOSER and probably several other tags properly. But it doesn't (and neither, BTW, does much else). I wrote up some enhancement requests about two years ago but nothing has been done with them, although you can certainly do a lot with erland's custom* plugins. If you do construct a system which properly uses COMPOSER, PERFORMER, CONDUCTOR (etc) then ARTIST becomes irrelevant: as it says on the reactor-core page, ARTIST is "for 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." I find it interesting that the two examples given of tagging classical music omit the ARTIST tag altogether, which is of course entirely appropriate if you have a playing system which properly uses all the other tags. But, if you are a beginner (remember this is the Beginner's Guide we are talking about here) then you need a simple way to get started which will allow you to do something useful with what we have. What we have is built around ARTIST, ALBUM and SONG. How you use those tags should be driven by how *you* most often want to browse your music. If the most important information about a Beethoven Symphony is that it is by Beethoven, then you'd better have Beethoven in the ARTIST tag. If OTOH you tend to browse by conductor, then by all means put that in. Another consideration: many people want to be able to use the same music library to supply many different players, such as an mp3 player, which can't be extended with nice plugins. I'm not sure about you, but if I'm browsing an iPod I definitely want to find that symphony under "Beethoven", not "Karajan" ... you may feel differently, in which case you know what to do! When you are forced to compromise there is no single right answer, unfortunately... IMHO. -- ceejay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43851 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
