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In Reply to: RE: Classifying Classical albums on a server posted by John C. - Aussie on July 16, 2015 at 00:23:22
Meta-data for me is -
Each track: composer by surname
Each track: name
Each track: soloist by first name; duo 1, duo 2; soloist, ensemble; ensemble - I'indifferent to conductors and make up my own ensemble names if necessary
Album name (not terribly useful to me)
Genres: by century written, in piano, classical, vocal - a limited number that sufficiently reflects my interests to enable me to find things in a collection of under 35,000 tracks
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That is an interesting approach and I understand its usefulness.
If there is more than one composer involved in an album I do what you do and put the composer as the header in each track but do not do this if the album is of the music of one composer only.
The room for data in each track is limited with the Meridian system so I rely on the header for artist info, but again, with limited room, not all artists can be featured there. Sooloos does have a special tab for detailed artist listing but with over 215,000 tracks on the system here it has not been high on my agenda and has only been filled in for a few albums.
One tab I had not mentioned before in the Meridian system is "Review" and I'm now hunting up net reviews and pasting them into this section. NAXOS is generous in the detail it offers on its discs but there is sparse or no data on others. The only problem with the review data is using the iPad as a control, all spaces are eliminated with "review" so formatting is destroyed making it less easy to read. For the same reason pasting in a libretto does not work if relying on the iPad.
Use of servers/PCs for music has grown like Topsy and as a result can be a bit chaotic with a lot of mistakes on net databases. Editing it all is a hobby in itself!!
John
What can be more subjective than music? It reflects our individual tastes, says he enjoying 13,000+ albums on a Meridian Sooloos Server.
Yes, well, I'd not enjoy having to write up or edit meta-data for a collection 7-10 times the size of my own, as yours is, John.
LOL! - If that isn't the truth! And I'm a bit player compared to k-k-kenny and you (only slightly over 20,000 tracks uploaded so far).
You've got better things to do than waste your life on this sorta nonsense.
If I had my indexing time over again I'd probly be through page 2 AT LEAST of Franck's P, C & F - maybe even up to bar 24 or 5.
But no, all this data entry has made my fingers all short and stubby so I can't hardly reach a fifth any more.
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