Composer list in library browser

[TheOldPresbyope]

I've only seen the Name tag in radio streams but never in song files so possibly it could be used to store the Composition text. MPD already supports the rest of the tags in your list.

1) What is the hierarchy that determines which columns appear on the panel?

Genre
- Composer
-- Composition
---- Title


2) Are Performer and Album attributes of the Title or part of the hierarchy?

----Title
----"Album"
----"Performer"

3) Which tags or attributes need to be searchable?

The main challenge is that everyone's Classical collection is tagged differently and no matter what is offered, there will be a requirement to re-tag. Still I think its worthwhile to develop a proposal and get some feedback on what might work :-)

Guides.
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Be..._Classical
https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Style/Classical

-Tim

As well as I know, there is no one standard in classical collection organisation. In my case, the collection is organised by:
- Epoque. There is no support for this tag in MPD so probably it will not be used, but it should be replaced by the Genre EDIT: By Genrea, I mean of course the subgenres of Classical, ie: Opera, Concerto, Vocal and so on.
- Composer
- Composition
- Performer (Artist in my case)
- Album

In my collection; performer and album are the parts of the hierarchy; and they should be in Moode. There are many performances of the same composition and I'd like to have possibility to choose one. Also, in case of compilation albums, the best way to choose is just the album.

I'm attaching the screenshot of my collection in Foobar2000 and JRiver below.

Concerning the search. I'd like to have possibility to search by:
- composer
- composition
- genre
- performer
- album

...

Seems like reasonable way to organize the collection, but MPD still not seeing the Name tag in the sample mp3's that you provided. The tag is in the file according to Mediainfo dump so more investigation required... 

-Tim

This arrangement is certainly worth trying.

I took a random walk through the MPD sources. I decided I don't have the chops to trace the logic through all those interlocking C++ modules.

Now that I've got a stable full of tag editors I can try to create variously tagged MP3 files to do black-box testing of MPD's parsing skills.

Regards,
Kent