Robin Bowes;273811 Wrote: > Listener wrote: > > Robin Bowes;273719 Wrote: [color=green] > > Of course it is. The only viable way to make classical music work with > > most players on the market today is to work within the limitations of > the Track/Album/Artist paradigm. You may not like it, but that's the > reality. > [color=blue] > > You said earlier that you don't browse but search. If you don't > need > > any of this, leave it to the rest of us. > > Believe me, I'd like nothing more than a better way of handling > classical music, but I firmly believe that stepping outside > Track/Album/Artist is a waste of time because that excludes >99% of > music players. > > Once again, I don't think you're wrong, I just think that they only > viable way to progress this is to adapt the existing system. > > R.
But this is really a false dichotomy. There is no reason that we have to choose between Track/Album/Artist and a more complete and customizable approach. The beauty of J. River's product is that you can keep the Track/Album/Artist if you want and add any number of other fields along side of them. You can then create as many views of the data as you want. The one I usually used to browse my classical was subgenre-composer-artist-work. I had another view that I used for nonclassical, genre-artist-album-track. You can still have track/album/artist for use with other players, you can add composer for your iPod. But you can also maintain a rich database of your music which can include enemble, conductor, whatever. And because the fields in the database are user defined and the way the data is viewed is also designed by the user, a single solution does not have to be found to satisfy each users needs. Robin, Bill, Ceejay and I can each have the tagging scheme that works for our individual needs. And because artist is differentiated from composer, I can search for either performances by Bernstein or compositions of Bernstein without confusion. -- stevek1006 -Steve ------------------------------ Steven Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ stevek1006's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1369 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43851 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
