Re: [clementine-player] How do I list recordings by composer?

2020-11-12 Thread Cornel Diaconu
Hm, so everybody missed this option, already existent ? Why don't you simply right-click on the bar with titles (artist, title, year etc etc) and simply check the option Composer ! That's all that you have to do ! And, provided your files *do* have this tag filled in, you will be able to sort

Re: [clementine-player] How do I list recordings by composer?

2020-08-10 Thread William Gallagher
Perfect ! Thank you very much! On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 9:51 PM Garthhh wrote: > You can organize by composer by using advanced grouping of the library > Click the wrench next to the search box>group by>advanced grouping > 1st level composer > 2nd level artist > > > On Monday, August 10, 2020

Re: [clementine-player] How do I list recordings by composer?

2020-08-10 Thread Garthhh
You can organize by composer by using advanced grouping of the library Click the wrench next to the search box>group by>advanced grouping 1st level composer 2nd level artist On Monday, August 10, 2020 at 5:39:49 PM UTC-7 bill...@gmail.com wrote: > The artist is very far from being irrelevant.

Re: [clementine-player] How do I list recordings by composer?

2020-08-10 Thread William Gallagher
The artist is very far from being irrelevant. When I think about listening to something, I think of the composer first, along with the work, and then I decide which recording (by which artist(s) I want to listen to. Say I have 34 recordings of the Bruckner 7th (strange, but true). I need to be

Re: [clementine-player] How do I list recordings by composer?

2020-08-10 Thread William Gallagher
Hi, Jeffery - It really shouldn't be necessary for those of us who choose to listen to classical to go through such gymnastics. Why couldn't Clementine simply offer me a choice of how I want the left hand column listing organized - e.g., "List by Composer", "List by Artist", "List by Music

Re: [clementine-player] How do I list recordings by composer?

2020-08-10 Thread William Gallagher
Thanks for your prompt reply, Peter. But for me, i wonder how I would "set the composer as artist". Would I have to go through over 11,000 files and manually enter the composer in the "artist" category? And if I did, then what would I do with the artist information that is also useful to me

Re: [clementine-player] How do I list recordings by composer?

2020-08-10 Thread Jeffery Small
I do the same as Peter, setting Artist and Composer to be the same. I then put conductor, orchestra and soloists in either the Performer or Comments section. I also put all music files under the same Composer folder so that I can locate them without too much hassle. On Monday, August 10,

Re: [clementine-player] How do I list recordings by composer?

2020-08-10 Thread Peter Tipping
With classical music, since the composer is the most important part, the artist is fairly much irrelevant, I have set the composer as the artist. Now I can listen to a composer/artist of my choosing. On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 03:12, William Gallagher wrote: > Clementine appears to be directed