ceejay;272812 Wrote: > When somebody can be bothered to write it! But don't hold your breath, > classical music users don't seem to be high on anyone's priority list. > And, without wishing to be prejudicial, classical music users are as a > group perhaps less likely also to be Perl hackers able to do it > themselves, which is the way things seem to move forward in a Open > Source world.
I don't think that is true it all. More like Classical music categorization and tagging is a major pain in the butt filled with exceptions and personal preferences and no interface is going to appease everyone. (See my prior comments about Musicbrainz Classical Style Guide which is constantly being ammended and changed, yet still annoys me at times especially with things like transcriptions and arrangements... but that is a particular pet peeve of mine: you may very well have different pet peeves.) As an excercise, take a track like this: http://video.aol.com/video-detail/volodos--horowitz-liszt-hungarian-rhapsody-no2/2437133401 "Volodos's transcription of Horowitz's arrangement of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody #2" Heck, Hungarian Rhapsody #2 itself is scary in history: originally a piano solo, then orchestrated, then a piano duet... and this version seems to be an arrangement of the orchestral piece by Horowitz, then transcribed back to solo piano by Volodos. So you have: Composer: Franz Liszt Arranger: Vladamir Horowitz Transcription by: Arcadi Volodos Performer: Arcadi Volodos Not at all to be confused with the versions that list Horowitz as transcriber... Again, look at the complexity of the MB Classical Style Guide: would that meet your requirements or would you have issues with it on some corner cases (transcriptions... poor Liszt gets neglected on MB because so much of his work was transcriptions... impressive output in my book, but 'show works by liszt' neglects him). Appeasing everyones tastes on handling classical music sucks, especially since the common tags are not well designed for it (especially with id3's, but since FLAC is free-form there is no good 'consensus' on what to tag and how...) The advantage of closed source systems isn't that they can go after that: it is that they can say, "this is the way it is, fix your tags to comply with our standards and if our standards don't match what you want, adjust your expectatons." That makes it a ton easier to develop. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43851 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
