I think the underlying problem is that tags seem to be genre specific so what works for electronic music is meaningless for Classical. I don't think there is a way to have a single limited tag list that works well or even poorly for everything. This problem has existed since the dawn of Gracenote with no good future. Further I don't think even Apple could significantly improve or change things now.
I would like to see some solution that uses genre to expose relevant tags but it seems like a lot of stuff to do to implement and still needs tag info in the original metadata that probably is not there or is there in some non-standard way. There are several efforts for automatically updating tag info e.g. perfectunes https://www.dbpoweramp.com/ however even these are not great with obscure music. I would suggest some checking of how these organize tags before attempting any significant revision. Demian -----Original Message----- From: mpd-devel [mailto:mpd-devel-boun...@musicpd.org] On Behalf Of Max Kellermann Sent: Wednesday, March 9, 2016 10:02 AM To: Joerg Raftopoulos Cc: mpd-devel@musicpd.org Subject: Re: [mpd-devel] Patch to increase number of metadata On 2016/03/09 18:06, Joerg Raftopoulos <jo...@raftopoulos.net> wrote: > I propose the following new tags for MPD 0.20: > > COMPOSERSORT analogous to (ALBUM|ARTIST|ALBUMARTIST)SORT OK. > TITLESORT analogous to (ALBUM|ARTIST|ALBUMARTIST)SORT Does anybody really sort songs by title? And is a separate "SORT" variant really necessary? > LABEL electronic [dance] music That's just some company which sells the music. Is this really relevant for the MPD user? > REMIXER electronic [dance] music OK (I wouldn't use that tag, but if you feel it's really important ...) > CONDUCTOR classical music OK. > LYRICIST audiobooks and classical music That's the guy who wrote the text? Do we really need to differentiate who authored the music and the text? > LANGUAGE audiobooks > ISRC identifier OK. > PERFORMER drop or keep for compatibility From a logical point of view, we should rather remove the "ARTIST" tag. What does ARTIST mean, anyway? For most (pop/rock) music, it's the performer (but not the author); for others, it's the author, and PERFORMER describes who performed it. But for pop/rock music, there is no AUTHOR tag. I guess we can't bring consistency here; people will be confused, won't they? > MOOD, RATING Is this stuff really neccessary? MOOD is something like GENRE? RATING - whose rating is this? This should better be kept in a separate database (e.g. MPD stickers). _______________________________________________ mpd-devel mailing list mpd-devel@musicpd.org http://mailman.blarg.de/listinfo/mpd-devel _______________________________________________ mpd-devel mailing list mpd-devel@musicpd.org http://mailman.blarg.de/listinfo/mpd-devel
