let's not forget that last.fm scrobbles by 'artist' not by 'composer' unless you're lucky enough to be using software that scrobbles by MBID
2009/1/19 Dave Smey <autod...@davesmey.com> > On Mon, January 19, 2009 8:05 pm, Jason Longland wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > Just curious with the classical styling guide as to why with the advent > > of ID3v2 tagging you still force it to use the Composer as the Artists > > when the newer ID3 tags all have the composer field available. > > Yeah, this comes up periodically. I'd say that one big reason is that > Artist=Composer is the way many of the active classical editors *like* > recordings to be organized. It mirrors the way record stores used to be > organized (back in the olden days when people actually went to > brick-and-mortar stores to browse for music.) > > And, "Composer" is still not supported by every piece of hardware I use. > > > After > > all, would it not make more sense to use the Artist who actually > > performed the track as the Artist so that media players can pick > > everything up as being the same CD when you search for say San Francisco > > Symphony Orchestra versus having to go through and look for a dozen > > different composers? > > > As Aaron pointed out, in these situations (where multiple composers appear > on one disc) the "Release Artist" is set to the performer. Plus, you > could always sort by album title if you are having a problem. > > However, aside from just making a redundant post, I wanted to assert my > (slightly OT) idea for a Picard plug-in - a quick Artist-Switcher, for > people who really would rather categorize a release under a performer. > So, you select an album, hit the switcher, and it reads all the ARs, > offering you big fat buttons that would switch out the Release Artist or > all Track Artists for one of the AR'ed names. Doesn't seem like it would > be hard to make, and it would make performer-oriented people happy. > > - Dave Smey (bklynd) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Musicbrainz-style mailing list > Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style >
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