(Robin Bowes) > Why bother with Composer at all as you include it in the > Album name.
I think that if you browsed rather than searching for music, the reason would be obvious. First, you browse on the Composer tag to narrow the list of files. (with one item per Composer rather than one per Album entry.) Then you get a list of just the works by Beethoven. (1 item per work.) Select one work and you get a list of artists performing the work you selected. At every step the length of the list is manageable. Browsing a album list where every work of every Composer you own is listed is not a process you want to do very often. > Which is exactly why no one is willing to really solve the > issues involving classical ... Subtract Robin from this discussion and there isn't much disagreement that players should fully support more tags so that users could do what they want to do. Without that support you just can't browse the way you want to. Developers of music player s/w and h/w can provide that support without settling just how every user will use tags. The other problem is harder. It would certainly make ripping classical music far easier if FreeDB, Gracenote, YADB and Musicbrainz provided Composer info in a separate tag in a consistent way. I gave up on getting useful tag info from any of those sources. When I rip a classical CD now, it takes me 1-2 minutes to do the tagging. I live with it. Bill -- Listener ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43851 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
