[Music] Adding Composer to the Music DB (1 Viewer)

[jameson_uk]

FWIW, many other media solutions have similar weaknesses. As a classical music fan, I am particularly anxious to have composer tags.

Indeed. I am still quite amazed that there is not a widely used sortby field in the ID3 spec.

Meanwhile, I have settled on the following compromise:
I have tagged pop music "Firstname Lastname", so "Phil Collins" is filed under "P", not under "C". My main reason for doing this is that most pre-tagged MP3s and most entries in CMDB are tagged this way. With nearly 30k tracks in my collection, anything else would be a tremendous amount of work.
The classical pieces are mostly tagged "Lastname, Firstname", so "Beethoven, Ludwig van" gets filed under "B".
I make exceptions only in the "Album Artist" (BAND) tag for albums by various composers, but a single performer, e.g., Anna Netrebko's "Russian Album".

Adding the composer field for me is not so much about the actual composer field but more having a further field which I don't use for anything else.

I don't have much classical music so I tend to have the following
Artist Phil Collins
Album Artist Phil Collins
Composer Collins, Phil

I started off by using Tag & Rename to copy across the Album artist field to the composer field. I have then over time fixed things like this. (most album artist tags tend to be the ones I want to sort by anyway and it is only individual's names or bands starting with The which cause and issue (although MP sorts out The)) I just then create a view with something like
Selection Operator ViewAs SortBy
Composer Group Big Icons Composer
Album Artist Icons Composer
Album Filmstrip Date

 

[rsbrux]

Composer View? How?

I just then create a view with something like
Selection Operator ViewAs SortBy
Composer Group Big Icons Composer
Album Artist Icons Composer
Album Filmstrip Date

From this description it sounds as though I should be able to add a "Composer" view to MP myself.
However, I haven't found "Composer" in MP Configuration's "Music Views" list of available fields either for "Selection" or for "SortBy". I also haven't found a way to add "Composer" in MP Configuration's "Music Sort" panel. Furthermore, looking at "MusicDatabaseV10.db3" using "SQLite Database Browser" I don't see any tables containing composer information in the DB at all.
What am I missing here?

 

[Roo]

Yes, please do tell.

 

[jameson_uk]

Yes, please do tell.

Sorry to let you down... this was how I want to set it up !!!

This thread was to ask to add in the composer tag into the database so you could do that

 

[vakarel]

Now that the feature-freeze is removed, can we hope to see the composer tag added in the 1.0.1 release?

 

[rsbrux]

I just read in another thread that 1.0.1 is already in feature freeze. If we're lucky, this is already in there.

 

[GoldenEye]

hwahrmann

Any chance MP could be improved now according to this request?

Kind regards

G.

 

[hwahrmann]

sorry guys. real life hit me and i couldn't implement it for 1.01 as the bass 2.4 upgrade took longer than expected.

 

[Helios61]

Hi Helmut!

Any chance to get the "composer tag" in 1.0.2.0?

Best regards

Helios

 

[hwahrmann]

no not really.
New features are frozen and i can't do anything for 1.0.2 anymore.