[mb-users] Album-based classical music

[Andrew Conkling]

OK, so after all this talk, here's what I've settled on:

I'll tag my tracks the MB way; I'm convinced of its merits.
I'll tag my albums by piece, because by album just don't work...
though I will tag them in MB syntax, i.e. the performer information.

I don't know if anyone really cares, but there it is. :)

Cheers,
Andrew

On 10/5/06, Andrew Conkling <andrew.conkling at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/5/06, Dave Smey <autodave at davesmey.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, October 5, 2006 8:43 am, Andrew Conkling said:
> > > while it took a bit more time tagging things on
> > > my own, at least they were indexed logically.
> >
> > Now you've got me hooked, too - I wouldn't mind hearing about your own
> > tagging plan.
>
> Here's what I've been doing.  I'm going to spell it out here, but
> someone more experienced with MB please let me know if this should end
> up in the Style Guide Discussion or something.
>
> Back in the MP3 days, I'd set my tags like this:
>
> Artist: Composer
> Track name: Piece name op.##.movement# in Key - Movement indications
> Album name: Piece name (Ensemble, Conductor, Performer)
> Year: Year
>
> Later, to meet my needs, I moved the Ensemble/Conductor/Performer to
> the Comment field.  (I'd go with the former now; I can see value in
> having unique album names that I didn't see before.)
>
> When I moved my collection to FLACs, I used the following:
> Artist: Composer
> Track name: Piece name op.##.movement# in Key - Movement indications
> Performer: Ensemble, Conductor, Performer
> Year: Year
>
> This was nice because everything I used supported using the Performer
> comment, so I didn't have to rely on the Comment field.
>
> Either way, I had files named in the following manner:
> musicroot/Composer/Piece (Ensemble, Conductor, Performer;
> Year)/Composer - Piece op.##.movement# in Key - Movement indications
> (Ensemble, Conductor, Performer; Year).
>
> This solution has worked very well (and concisely) that it took me a
> very long while (read: a number of encounters over a few years) to be
> interested in MusicBrainz's way of doing things; everything seemed
> (past tense, folks!) unnecessarily long and unclear.
>
> I've used Dr. Tag on Windows and now EasyTAG on Linux to manage my
> files.  Great programs.  Even so, it's a tedious process.  But, I do
> end up with files and tags that are easily managed, and sorted
> appropriately.
>
> I have yet to be convinced that MusicBrainz can offer me better for my
> classical tracks.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>