Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee composer support

["Andrew Conkling" <andrew conkling gmail com>]

On 10/29/06, Jonathan Ho <hojonathanho gmail com> wrote:
> On 10/29/06, Andrew Conkling <andrew conkling gmail com> wrote:
> > On 10/25/06, Jonathan Ho <hojonathanho gmail com> wrote:
> > > I have created a patch that adds composer tag support to Banshee (for
> > > us classical music fanatics...). I'm not sure that it's implemented in
> > > the codebase entirely correctly, as I'm not familiar with the Banshee
> > > code at all. Please be gentle ;-)
> >
> > How would this interact with the MusicBrainz data for classical music?
> >  http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ClassicalStyleGuide  And aside from that,
> > I've always understood that the Artist was the composer for classical
> > music, and that it was the Performer tag that was missing....
>
> Hmph. When I implemented this, I was thinking more along the lines of
> iPod (and amarok) composer tag support. Which way do you think Banshee
> should go?

As of a few weeks ago, I've been using MusicBrainz and I see a lot of
value there though, truth be told, I'm a big fan of the extra tags
proposed here: http://reactor-core.org/ogg-tagging.html. I suppose in
that way, Banshee would provide support for composer *and* performer.
I don't see this being incredibly useful though, as the only way this
would be beneficial is if all types of apps--taggers, players,
portable devices, etc.--were able to support them. Call me a cynic....

Damn ID3!

Cheers,
Andrew