11-11-2021, 08:35 AM
I don't listen to a great deal of classical music, but when I do I always browse by Composer, so I understand the desire for this. In my own collection, I'm happy to achieve this by simply putting the composer name in the Album Artist tag. Obviously, for those with a proper interest in the subject, that isn't acceptable.
I also almost never use Genres for browsing because I find it impossible to categorise that way (are The Beatles pop? Eric Clapton might be Blues, but what about I Shot the Sheriff?).
But, simply replacing the Genre column with a Composer column could lead to issues in collections where composer is populated in non-classical recordings as well. Some users maybe happy to have Lennon/McCartney alongside Liszt, but some will want the non-classical filtered out, probably by Genre...
Would a simple genre/compose swap in the UI be acceptable along with using the search facility to include only classical genres?
I also almost never use Genres for browsing because I find it impossible to categorise that way (are The Beatles pop? Eric Clapton might be Blues, but what about I Shot the Sheriff?).
But, simply replacing the Genre column with a Composer column could lead to issues in collections where composer is populated in non-classical recordings as well. Some users maybe happy to have Lennon/McCartney alongside Liszt, but some will want the non-classical filtered out, probably by Genre...
Would a simple genre/compose swap in the UI be acceptable along with using the search facility to include only classical genres?
----------------
Robert
Robert
