I keep having random thoughts about this issue. Here's my latest... I think classical music would fit into the track/album/artist model quite nicely if the performer information could be added as well.
For example, given something like this disc: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Prokofiev-Shostakovich-Violin-Concertos-Sergey/dp/B000000SLM/qid=1204125873 Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 In D Major, Op. 19: 1. Andantino 2. Scherzo: Vivacissimo 3. Moderato Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No.1 In A Minor 4. Nocturne: Moderato 5. Scherzo: Allegro 6. Passacaglia: Andante 7. Burlesque: Allegro con brio I'd like these to display like this on my Slim devices: 1. Andantino from Violin Concerto No. 1 In D Major, Op. 19 by Prokofiev (Maxim Vengerov (violin), Mstiaslav Rostropovich, London Symphony Orchestra) This would work with the following tagging scheme: TRACK: Andantino ALBUM: Violin Concerto No. 1 In D Major, Op. 19 ARTIST: Prokofiev PERFORMER: Maxim Vengerov (violin) CONDUCTOR: Mstiaslav Rostropovich ENSEMBLE: London Symphony Orchestra The only change would be that Qqueezecenter would have to append the performer information in brackets after the TRACK from ALBUM by ARTIST information. This could be made customisable by the user in the following way: 1. Define a placeholder tag called "USER_EXTRA" 2. Allow the user to specify what tags should be collated into "USER_EXTRA". This could be a simple list: PERFORMER, CONDUCTOR, ENSEMBLE Or could be more complicated to allow the user to define the format of the USER_EXTRA tag. 3. The user can then add the USER_EXTRA placeholder to the format strings, e.g.: TRACKNUM. TITLE from ALBUM by ARTIST (USER_EXTRA) Does that sound like a reasonable approach? I've not thought it through much further, but it seems like that would work for me. Anyone got any comments or suggestions? R. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
