Back to the OP, I was in the process of dealing with the issue of Classical music in my collection, but I only got as far as dealing with the tags. I use FLAC files and MP3Tag to tag them.
As a start, I basically created or filled tags that were there or I custom created for classical music. The purpose was to create a sort of unspoiled record of the original metadata for the CD/Album/Recording. For instance, I fill tags for CONDUCTOR, COMPOSER, WORK, OPUS, MOVEMENT, PERFORMER, etc More common tags I fill directly are BAND (used for the orchestra), STYLE and GENRE (to capture the genre of classical music or type of music, e.g. symphony, concerto, boroque, romantic, etc.... whatever makes sense to me). Then I use MP3Tag actions to combine bits and pieces of the information above into the Album, Artist, Title, etc. In other-words I get the information into a format that most software can read. For instance, Artist gets filled as multiple artists per track with Conductor, Composer, Performer (soloist for instance), and perhaps Orchestra. Album often gets a combination of "Composer - Work", Song Title gets "Movement", Album Artist often gets "Conductor". As for LMS, my original intent was to use some of the plugins available (for LMS 7.8) to create a separate library for my classical music (I store it in its own Folder Tree) and browse menus so that I can browse as I made sense. In the meantime, by filling the typical tags, I've been able to utilize those with the standard menus. I never got very far with my custom menus. I was using some plugins by Erland, but I never got very far into a testing phase with much success. I struggled to keep the classical music and its features separate from my mainstream music. I do see that there may be more flexibility with LMS 7.9, but I haven't tried it, yet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ emalvick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35382 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104752 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
