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On Classical Music Tagging (ID3 tags) for iTunes and iPod

May 30th, 2006

When it comes to organizing for iTunes and iPod, classical music is an entirely different beast. Why tie yourself to an inefficient and illogical "album" model when classical works were never meant to be treated that way? iTunes allows you to appreciate individual works as they were conceived and executed: as individual, stand-alone works. :: Example of my tagging structure (click to see full size). I recently ran across Musicbrainz's classical music ...

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March 8 - 40 songs played. 24 removed.

March 8th, 2006

today included: bavarian radio orchestra performing beethoven's no.5 badly drawn boy [about a boy] english symphony performing delius' florida suite disney's magic skyway music from the 1964 new york world's fair all tomorrow's parties 1.0 you know, the back-to-back playing of delius' florida suite (which is magnificent, btw) with dvorak's no.9 has given me the idea to put together some kind of "impressions of america" compilation. dvorak's 9th was written during the time the czech ...

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