Organizing classical FLAC files

[paulgj]

Just curious as to how others store their classical albums? I have a FLAC folder containing folders for artists and then album folders within that:

D:\Music\flac\Artist\Album

Currently I have some classical albums stored by the performing artist such as Glenn Gould and others by composer such as Arvo Part and I'd like to come to a standard methid to store them consistently. Any tips or suggestions greatly appreciated.

[JerryS]

Just curious as to how others store their classical albums? I have a FLAC folder containing folders for artists and then album folders within that:

D:\Music\flac\Artist\Album

Currently I have some classical albums stored by the performing artist such as Glenn Gould and others by composer such as Arvo Part and I'd like to come to a standard methid to store them consistently. Any tips or suggestions greatly appreciated.

Doesn't really matter from SB's point of view since the database takes care of sorting the music for browsing. However, it is useful to have some sort of logical directory system to enable finding stuff when you want to retag for any reason. For classical music I use Music/composer/artist/album. Where there are works by different composers on an album I use both composer names for the composer directory (eg Brahms-Sibelius). For Jazz I use Music/artist/album. No one system is going to be universally applicable and unless one is particularly anal about this, what works for you is good enough.

Jerry

[garym]

Just curious as to how others store their classical albums? I have a FLAC folder containing folders for artists and then album folders within that:

D:\Music\flac\Artist\Album

Currently I have some classical albums stored by the performing artist such as Glenn Gould and others by composer such as Arvo Part and I'd like to come to a standard methid to store them consistently. Any tips or suggestions greatly appreciated.

http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.ph...ideToClassical
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...=tag+classical
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...ging+classical

[MrSinatra]

i'm not big into classical, but i do think that tags matter more than storage.

i would probably just use composers for storage, a simple rule that everything should be able to fit into.

its tags where it gets harder. recently i think i posted somewhere i do:

composer = composers
artist = actual performer, orchestra, etc
album = album / work
aa = where / how i'd want to find / sort the thing

whatever you do, be sure to really think it out and then hold everything to that system, and i'd even test it in server and see if you are getting the results you want.

[emalvick]

Tags are definitely more important than storage. Classical opens up quite the tag of worms, which is seen in the links provided by Gary earlier.

As a listener who puts classical as a 3rd priority (behind Rock/Pop and Jazz), it is hard to shift the frame of mind when classical CD's are often mixtures of works and composers with perhaps common conductor, performer(s), or orchestra.

My solution was to break myself from the standard album, album artist, etc tags and into tags based on conductor, performer, work. That organization is for tags. For storage, I have kept the music in folders and filenames by disc. That allows me to see what discs I own via the file/folder information and I've added some of this info to comment fields too.

Otherwise, I don't ever listen to a disc for the sake of listening to a disc unless that disc happens to make up a complete work.

[zowie]

Does Squeezebox not have a menu for composer? I'm a new user and haven't found one.

Itunes/Ipods does. What I do is fill in the composer tag for classical music only and this works perfectly. I search classical music by composer and don't have to have composers and artists mixed together in the artist field.

[MrSinatra]

Does Squeezebox not have a menu for composer? I'm a new user and haven't found one.

Itunes/Ipods does. What I do is fill in the composer tag for classical music only and this works perfectly. I search classical music by composer and don't have to have composers and artists mixed together in the artist field.

in settings u have to tick the composers field.

i don't think you can "untick" artists or albumartists. another lame drawback of the "one master list" server uses.

[zowie]

in settings u have to tick the composers field.

i don't think you can "untick" artists or albumartists. another lame drawback of the "one master list" server uses.

I saw that, but then it merges the composers the with the artists. There should be a separate menu item, as apple provides, so you can sort by composer only. I think I'm finding that there is not.

[JerryS]

I saw that, but then it merges the composers the with the artists. There should be a separate menu item, as apple provides, so you can sort by composer only. I think I'm finding that there is not.

Have a look at Erland's plug-ins. Custom Browse and Multi-libraries make a big difference in browsing classical music.

Jerry

[zowie]

Have a look at Erland's plug-ins. Custom Browse and Multi-libraries make a big difference in browsing classical music.

Jerry

Thanks for the suggestion. That looks to be exactly what I'm after. But rather a lot of trouble to implement.