27-May-2016, 14:31
(27-May-2016, 14:14)Hifi_swlon Wrote: Copying your example, if you had say 10 CDs containing multiple performances of the same "work" by different orchestras, and by the same orchestra but with different conductors and/or soloists, how would you find them? And how would you find all of Mahler's work, or all the CDs featuring a certain soloist? I can only assume its a combination of being in the owners head, and scouring the shelves to find all the discs....
Yes, that's about right. At least, that's how I used to do it It helps if you're a bit fussy about keeping them in some kind of order; once in the general area I tended to find the right CD partly by knowing "it's an EMI recording with a red spine on the CD case" and that kind of thing.
The problem I find with computer-based searches is that they tend to let you find things by (e.g) Composer (Mahler) or artist (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (or it it CBSO?)) but not usually a combination of both. One way to handle this is to make the album title something like "Mahler: Symphony No. 2 [CBSO]" which then generally allows you to search based on album title, but doesn't work very well if you have limited space for displaying titles (e.g. on an iPhone/iPod, should you be interested in listening to classical music on one).
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