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acroyearClassical Music at CDDB: the artist as movement # problem.
The satellite radio providers and anybody who rips their cds for online music. Most of those players ignore the album title when displaying. XM in particular sends track title and artist and that's it. So their solution is to map the album and artist together ("Bernstein: Brahams 4th Symphony") and put the movement number as the artist ("1st Movement") so it displays
Great for them, crappy for users who want to sort their music more correctly with the many more fields provided by the iTunes library and/or mp3id2. I think I can accurately blame the classical-satellite radio people because there are few others who I think would actually rip Classical music into mp3s. Many classical music listeners are likely audiophiles who would rather just plug the CD in than have the harmonics destroyed by the mp3 process.
The satellite radio providers and anybody who rips their cds for online music. Most of those players ignore the album title when displaying. XM in particular sends track title and artist and that's it. So their solution is to map the album and artist together ("Bernstein: Brahams 4th Symphony") and put the movement number as the artist ("1st Movement") so it displays
Bernstein: Brahams 4th Symphony
1st Movement
rather conveniently, instead of1st Movement
Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic
where the album/music title (Brahams 4th Symphony) is totally lost.Great for them, crappy for users who want to sort their music more correctly with the many more fields provided by the iTunes library and/or mp3id2. I think I can accurately blame the classical-satellite radio people because there are few others who I think would actually rip Classical music into mp3s. Many classical music listeners are likely audiophiles who would rather just plug the CD in than have the harmonics destroyed by the mp3 process.
