Ahh the old dilemma. I spent AGES trying to figure this out. I came to the conclusion (after reading various wiki pages and such) that there is no standard, so you have to make your own. As has been mentioned elsewhere - the key to tagging is consistency. Chose a schema that can accomodate your collection and stick to it.
About 25% of my collection is classical, and I ripped my CDs to FLAC using dbPowerAmp with the PowerPack (very worth having...). My tagging schema is thus: Album = Name of the CD OR whole piece of music (eg. Symphony No. 40) Artist = Composer's name Title = Name of the song, movement etc. Stick to a consistent naming scheme here as well, for searching Genre = Classical I also then added two more tags that Slim can make use of: Conductor = er...conductor Band = Orchestra In SlimServer settings you can have orchestra and conductor added to the list of artists when browsing which can be useful. To make this work well, I decided to break up my classical CDs when ripping. Most of my classical CDs contain more than one work either by several composers or conductors, or are collections for sub-genre (e.g. Baroque). So, I ripped individual works as albums, which has worked really well. Takes a bit of work, but its worth it. One other thing - in order to be able to determine different sub-genres of classical music, in the genres tag, I would add that sub-genre, e.g.: Genre = Classical;Baroque I SlimServer you can specify a separator for it to use when checking tags such as Genre. In the example above it means that the piece of music would appear under two genres - Classical and Baroque. This may seem silly at first glance, but it means if you are browsing by genre, you can view all your classical music, or your sub-genres of classical music. I found that useful. Hope this helps... Chris. -- chris.mason ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20850 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
