Hi, I wonder if any of you would be interested in helping me creating a list of the ultimate metadata for Classical. To allow me (and others) to develop better Classical support for my music tagger software as it seems Classical ethusists are poorly served by current software. As a mainly Pop/Rock listener the artist/performer/composer are often the same thing and its usually easy to categorize this type of music. But Im trying to get a better handle of Classical and would love some input on this, in the past many tools have put the same composer as the album artist to compensate for tools lack of support for the composer field but this is totally inadequate.
Clearly a classical piece can have composer/orchestra/main performer/conductor and other soloists and instrumentalists and these could be stored in different metadata fields but it is difficult to decide what should be be stored as the album artist and track artist. My own view is the albumArtist may could be any of composer,orchestra,main performer,conductor depending on who is the most high profile of them, probably mirroring where the CD would be stored in a record shop (i.e V for Vivaldi, or K for Kennedy, Nigel) but is this right, I cant form a definite option about track artist.
Then there is the music title itself, my plan was to have seperate Work and Part of Work fields as well as the Title but then my knowledge fails me, are there any additional fields required ?
Any thoughts ?
Clearly a classical piece can have composer/orchestra/main performer/conductor and other soloists and instrumentalists and these could be stored in different metadata fields but it is difficult to decide what should be be stored as the album artist and track artist. My own view is the albumArtist may could be any of composer,orchestra,main performer,conductor depending on who is the most high profile of them, probably mirroring where the CD would be stored in a record shop (i.e V for Vivaldi, or K for Kennedy, Nigel) but is this right, I cant form a definite option about track artist.
Then there is the music title itself, my plan was to have seperate Work and Part of Work fields as well as the Title but then my knowledge fails me, are there any additional fields required ?
Any thoughts ?
