[mb-users] Album-based classical music

[Andrew Conkling]

On 10/5/06, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com> wrote:
> The ClassicalStyleGuide does help a little by saying that each track should
> be prefixed with the name of the work. This solves your Mahler symphony
> problem. At least, you won't have all Beethoven's Allegros stacked together!
> But if you have several interpretations of the same opus, you won't be
> happy.

...which is almost always the case.  Even browsing by track name isn't
very good, because I have about 7000 tracks in my collection so it's
difficult to move through them quickly.

> The current structure of MB's database doesn't allow to sort classical music
> properly. NextGenerationSchema (which I believe needs to be amended a little
> more for classical) should address most of your problems. But NGS is
> unfortunately not due soon.

I was afraid of this.  I'm tempted to give up on using MusicBrainz for
my classical, because while it took a bit more time tagging things on
my own, at least they were indexed logically.  In the meantime, I'll
look into NGS; it looks like there's a nice wiki page on the subject.

Any more ideas would be most welcome.

Cheers,
Andrew