27-May-2016, 14:14
(This post was last modified: 27-May-2016, 14:15 by Hifi_swlon.)
(27-May-2016, 14:01)thumb5 Wrote: ...for example it often takes me around half an hour to properly tag a typical classical CD...
Wow, that's a lot of work....
How do classical listeners manage all this information for their physical CD collection out of interest?
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....
If that's the case, I would much rather have a computer playback solution - even with half-baked metadata - than nothing.
When I was CD based (all those 12 months ago) I found it hard enough just find the albums I wanted to listen to in my small collection (and then finding they weren't actually in their case). For me the access to searches, playlists, favourites, playback history, combined with external streaming services etc, all from the convenience of an iPad, far outweigh any negatives associated with 'puter playback. And in classical, surely you can at least fall back to the album title/artwork as a last resort - it will probably get you most of the way there, at least compared to searching the CD racks?
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