th00ht 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...
Hi, Let me put another perspective on this... The issue here is not "what's right" or "who agrees with who" but rather "what works". Most (all?) digital music players (iPod, SB, etc) only really use the common "Artist/Album/Track" tags, typically in the format "TRACK from ALBUM by ARTIST" or similar. I can see why you might feel that "Artist" should be the performer of the piece rather than the composer, but try and forget that the "Artist" tag is named "Artist" and think of it as just a field that gets displayed on your music player. Personally, I think the way forward is to store all the "correct" data in tags like "Composer", "Performer", etc. and then have a custom script that takes the information from those tags and writes something to Artist/Album/Track. R. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
