Re: Ripping/Organization Best Practices?

Listener;164705 Wrote: 
> whether you settle for the limited facilities that most players provide
> or do you look for tools that provide what you need.
> 
> My own list of essentials for playing classical music are
> 
> - separate Composer and (performing) Artist tags.
Agreed, and Artist needs to be capable of multiple values (meaning the
management/streaming applications need to be compatible with this).

> 
> - An Album name this is JUST the work name "Symphony No. 9" without the
> composer's name or the performer's name added.  I want to see a list of
> 9 symphonies for Beethoven not 100 albums like "Beethoven - Symphonhy
> No. 9 Karajan".

Yes, and it's important to distinguish between a CD entity (which can
contain several works by different composers) and the work entities
themselves.  So Beethoven's 9th Symphony could be either or both,
depending, whereas a single Chopin Nocturne would be the latter but
almost certainly not the former.

> 
> - I want to browse and select by Composer, then Album, then Artist. 
> Sometimes, I want to browse by Artist, then Composer, them Album.

More specifically, I'd usually like to browse/select by Composer, then
Work, then Artist.  Other times I'd like to browse/select by CD (e.g.,
"18th Century Harp Concerti"), or something like Era (e.g., Baroque --
although I'd probably go to the trouble of creating playlists for
eras), and at still other times by Instrument (e.g., Piano, although
this could happen via a playlist as well).
> 
> - gapless playback, no fading, silences preserved.
> 
> - grouping all tracks that make up one performance so that I hear them
> all in the right order.
> 
> - a good UI that lets me see what works and performances of them I
> have.

Agreed on all of these...
> 
> At the time I got serious about ripping my 2000 CD collection, SB/SS
> just didn't meet my standards.  I tried out SS/Softsqueeze quite
> thoroughly.  I contributed to threads on this forum and supported
> Ceejay's suggestions for enhancement.  No action on those.
> 
> I used J. River Media center 11 (MC 11) for ripping and editing tags
> and didn't worry about using SS/SB for the present.  Now I'm using MC
> 11 to play music.  MC 11 is heaven for classical music listeners.
> 
> Slimserver is better suited to classical music now with the Custom Scan
> and Custom Browse plug-ins.  And there is a MC 11 plugin to route output
> from MC 11 to Slimserver and then to an SB. Maybe I'll get around to
> using an SB when I go to a multi-room setup.  I certainly admire the
> work Sean and his company have done.
> ...
> 
> Bill

Thanks for your observations, Bill.  I don't have a Slim setup yet, but
I'll consider your approach (although I'm likely to run SS under
Linux...not sure if that screws up the MC11 idea).

I went off on a tangent to look into Matroska tagging/organization. 
Lots of good ideas there, and would be nice if SS fully supported it
(it seems to be on the way of solving a LOT of problems, and would give
SS a path into other streaming digital types -- like video -- if
Logitech wanted to take it in that direction.


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