tagging classical music problems

[dikkiedirk]

Having only a few classical music CD's I find it hard to tag them properly.

How would you guys tag a CD like:

R. Strauss - F. Reiner - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Also Sprach Zarathustra

Which program is best suited for tagging automatically, if any?

[marcaurel]

Re: tagging classical music problems

IMHO mp3tag is the best tagging software available.
Here's an example using Vorbis Comments:

COMPOSER=Richard Strauss
COMPOSERSORT=Strauss, Richard
CONDUCTOR=Fritz Reiner
CONDUCTORSORT=Reiner, Fritz
ENSEMBLE=Chicago Symphony Orchestra
ALBUM=Also sprach Zarathustra
ALBUMARTIST=Fritz Reiner
ALBUMARTISTSORT=Reiner, Fritz
ARTIST=Richard Strauss
ARTISTSORT=Strauss, Richard
DATE=19.. (recording year or whole date)
OPUS=30

Using the conductor as ALBUMARTIST and the composer as ARTIST is my personal preference.
Change it to your needs.

[mville]

Re: tagging classical music problems

Having only a few classical music CD's I find it hard to tag them properly.

How would you guys tag a CD like:

R. Strauss - F. Reiner - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Also Sprach Zarathustra

Richard Strauss = Composer
Strauss, Richard = Composer Sort

Fritz Reiner = Conductor
Reiner, Fritz = Conductor Sort

Chicago Symphony Orchestra = Orchestra

Also Sprach Zarathustra = Title

You may also want to look at populating the new Work, Movement Name and Movement Number tags for classical music.

Which program is best suited for tagging automatically, if any?

None are perfect. I normally have to manually edit classical CDs in CDRipper, prior to ripping.

[mville]

Re: tagging classical music problems

Tagging the Artist and Album Artist tags for classical music is not a perfect science and there are many discussions on the web which try to address this issue.

Read this thread Album Artist / Artist..? (from post no. 5 onwards) for more info.