I've researched this a bit more, and have come up with a tagging scheme
that I think makes sense.  I'd like to get a little discussion of this
before I submit my ideas as feature requests.

>From the ID3v4 specification, these are the tags that are needed or
desired:

TALB: title of the CD/album the work is on
TIT1: opus/work title for multi-part compositions (optional) 
TIT2: movement or song title

TRCK: should be the track position on the CD that the work is on (order
within the opus is the same as order on the disc)

TCOM: Composer
TEXT: Lyricist

TPE1: soloist(s) or performer/band for popular music
TPE2: ensemble
TPE3: conductor
TPE4: remixing artist

TOPE: original artist when the song is a cover (not relevant to
classical)

TKEY: key in which the music starts -- extremely optional ;)

TSOA: Album sort key
TSOP: Performer sort key
TSOT: Title sort key


Behaviors I would like to see from slimserver:
When the TIT1 field is present, have the option to treat TIT1 instead
of TIT2 as the "song title" when shuffling or browsing.

Thus, an album that contained a 3-movement sonata along with a few
1-track inventions, would shuffle as

1. sonata
2. invention #1
3. invention #2
4. invention #3

instead of 

1. sonata movement 1
2. sonata movement 2
3. sonata movement 3
4. invention #1
5. invention #2
6. invention #3

The latter method results in getting the movements separately and out
of order in a shuffled playlist.  Perhaps add another shuffle mode:
Shuffle by track -> Shuffle by opus -> Shuffle by album -> Don't
shuffle


I would also like to browse by composer (TCOM) or by soloist/ensemble
(TIT1 + TIT2).  For the composer search, use TIT1 where TCOM is not
present so that the browse list still includes all available tracks.


I would like slimserver to recognize the sort key tags TSOA, TSOP, TSOT
if present


-- 
John Stimson
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