Seriously. I'll be listening to some performer's album, and I want to know who wrote the piece I'm listening to, and all that's listed in the track info is "I. Allegro".
Anyone know of services that do meta-data correctly?
Posted Aug 15, 2014, 8:17 PM UTC
They're really not good a jazz either (how many recorded versions are there of Coltrane playing "My Favorite Things"? Lots! - you're lucky if you get the distinction between "live" and "studio" most of the time)
That's information you get from the album title, not the song title.
Not always, though, that's the problem.
I hate it so much. Once in a while Spotify will have the composers name, but not always! Life is hard
I feel it's an insult to the composer... Especially if he/she is still alive, and trying to make a career.
Naxos Music Library has quite accurate composer tagging. Unfortunately their interface is completely obsolete and in flash. I wish they had a nice interface like spotify.
I second this. You can even view all available pieces by a particular composer and browse all available recordings of a certain piece!
One program that I use for my music collection is Quodlibet. It has really good tagging capabilities, if you want to mess around with the tags.
They'd appeal to a huge demographic if they did this right. They might have buttloads of classical music on there, but they're just horribly ineffective in delivering it.
And don't get me started on the dozens of "Classical music for: Work/Meditation/Studying/any activity that doesn't involve actually listening to it"-albums. It makes me wanna puke.
It's worse when the title says literally everything and gets cut off halfway on Spotify Mobile. Every opera is 73 tracks of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Don Giovanni ossia il Diss.....
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Don Giovanni ossia il Diss.....
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Don Giovanni ossia il Diss.....
I don't know of any music organising systems that handle classical music properly, but I sympathise with you. Sometimes I see additional information conveyed in an extra-long title.
The only solution is downloaded music, and fixing the tags. You can display all the information you want and not rely OB someone's incorrect assumptions.
Yes, it sucks because they are accustomed to
Artist
Song
Album
Now you can say: include the title of the composer and work in the album, so it can be:
Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker
II. Andante in G major
Mozart: Symphony 38 in D major
However...what if the album contains two symphonies? Then the Andante could be from either one... Or should I put the symphony number in the title tag? But what if an album contains work by multiple composers? So the composer should be in the title tag too...
For traditional pop, you have three pieces of relevant information: artist, title and album.
For classical you have: composer, work, movement, conductor, orchestra, solist(s), name of the album and year of recording at the least. If you have to put all that in three tags, you're fucked. And so we're fucked.
I think iTunes does. I thought GPMAA did too but I could be wrong.