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Classifying Classical albums on a server

Posted by John C. - Aussie (A) on July 16, 2015 at 00:23:22

Pop albums are easy as the artist is the prime focus but Classical albums are more challenging as the composer is usually the main focus.

On that basis it is fairly straightforward to do albums alphabetically in order of composer, or is it? Not really as some albums have more than one composer (and some pop albums have multiple artists although this is not as frequent as it is in classical).

If there are more than one composer I just use "Various" but if only two, classify or tag under both composers.

So what about the artists? Fairly straightforward for orchestral items - conductor first, orchestra second, but what to do with a concerto? Surely the artist is then the main focus. But is he/she really the focus? In most cases yes but not always but to be consistent artist should head the list.

And for duos, should both artists be listed, for trios.... it starts to get involved. If the chamber group has a name, no problem, but what about the 5th artist in a quintet?

I guess what one does depends on the program being used. The Meridian Sooloos system (I refuse to use the new name) has quite a good program to classify albums and gives a lot of options. The one I concentrate on is "Tags" with some albums having multiple tags.

Anyway, what do you do?

John

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