Always the Wrong Choice

[mishalak]

Usually when I pop in a classical music compact disc iTunes will present me with two or more options asking, "Which one is the right album?" I think I must have some sort of ability to pick the wrong choice because usually the entry I choose has many things wrong. For starters I prefer to put in the composer as the "Artist". I know this is wrong and there is a nice little spot down there for composer, but when am I going to want to pick out albums where John Eliot Gardiner was the fellow who did the arrangement? Even though I have multiple albums of things like "Great Mass in C minor" I want to pick it by W.A. Mozart, not who arranged the piece later. More importantly they usually get the song names wrong. Either by packing in all sorts of information (soloist, first violin, choir, K. 427, etc, etc, etc) or by putting in bits that are wrong. Like the screwing up which movement the track is part of, etc.

Music is a big messy field and trying to get everyone to agree to a standard way of describing it is like trying to logically divide fog.

Comments

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

Classical music has always been a pain with these online description systems, with the confusion over Composer/Conductor/Orchestra, let alone arrangements. I never found cddb or freedb did it quite the way I wanted to. Then there are all the foreign language issues, all that Kirca stuff to label a composers' work by numbers when I wanted the common name. And its horrible when a mp3 player plays classical music out of sequence.

I end up renaming the ripped mp3 files the way I want in Composer/CD/01_Symphony_xx_Allegro and choosing a player that shows the whole string.