What's YOUR theory?
Aug. 19th, 2009 05:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridley...on music sorting?
I have a few things I'm not decided on when it comes to filing music. Maybe some of you have tried and succeeded or failed and can share.
Classical: Do you list the composer as the artist, or the performer? IOW, under W.A. Mozart, or Detroit Symphony Orchestra? I'm leaning towards the performer, because that leads to some consistency; treating them as basically "covers" of the pieces. I wouldn't file "Hurt" by Johnny Cash under Nine Inch Nails, for instance.
Genres: If you organize by directory structure, do you have genre folders, like Classical, Rock, Comedy, etc? Or do you put Bill Cosby in the same folder as Quiet Riot and Tchaikovsky? At the very least I'd want to put audiobooks in a folder to separate that, and if I do that, it'd be easier to tell Songbird to organize things this way in general. But when you get to modern music, it's difficult sometimes to assign a genre to a group, especially ones that have been around a long time and have morphed their style.
I'm sure I'll find other things to ask too.
I have a few things I'm not decided on when it comes to filing music. Maybe some of you have tried and succeeded or failed and can share.
Classical: Do you list the composer as the artist, or the performer? IOW, under W.A. Mozart, or Detroit Symphony Orchestra? I'm leaning towards the performer, because that leads to some consistency; treating them as basically "covers" of the pieces. I wouldn't file "Hurt" by Johnny Cash under Nine Inch Nails, for instance.
Genres: If you organize by directory structure, do you have genre folders, like Classical, Rock, Comedy, etc? Or do you put Bill Cosby in the same folder as Quiet Riot and Tchaikovsky? At the very least I'd want to put audiobooks in a folder to separate that, and if I do that, it'd be easier to tell Songbird to organize things this way in general. But when you get to modern music, it's difficult sometimes to assign a genre to a group, especially ones that have been around a long time and have morphed their style.
I'm sure I'll find other things to ask too.
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Date: 2009-08-20 01:59 pm (UTC)I wish there was a separate performer tag, that would solve this problem.
It's tempting to organize by genre, but there are so many groups that cross genres, I wouldn't know where to file them. Of course, that's part of the point of me going to software, so that I can find stuff regardless of where it's filed. Once it's in the software, it doesn't really matter that much what it's filed by on the hard drive, the software will deal with it.
I'm guessing it's going to take me most of a year to get through the MP3 files and make sure all the tags are correct. I have one particular collection, rips of old 78RPM albums, which are entirely untagged, and many are studio recordings of blues singers from the 1920s and such; it may be impossible to properly tag those.