Composer is not an artist?

[yannig]

To my taste (I listen a lot to classical music), I'm still waiting (from MPD) for a 4th "composers" column.

In the meantime, I've added (classic) composer names at the start of each album name, it's the best way I've found to easily navigate through my library.

Hi,

although I perfectly understand what you are trying to achieve, in terms of sorting and/or filtering, why in hell do you mention COMPOSER?!?!?
The composer is, ehm... the composer, that is: Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Puccini, and the like... you wanted to say director? performer?
Then it's perfectly understandable that two different orchestras / ensembles / directors play Beethoven's 5th...

Just my 2c in pursuit of understanding this struggle with classical music, which I do not encounter. And yes, I do have different interpretations of the same classical pièce, and I differentiate them writing the details (again: orchestra / director / performer) in the comment tag.

I'm fine with the "artists" column for performers etc.

I just want a fourth column for composers for classical music, I don't really need it for other genres

And a composer is not a director or a performer, I don't understand your question...

In fact, I want something that looks a bit like an iTunes or Audirvana presentation (and several others).

four columns: Genres, Composers, Artists, Albums.
I don't need more, but I feel uncomfortable with less

One day, perhaps...