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On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 06:10:58PM -0400, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
> With iTunes, I can easily say "every song from an album
> with 'Greatest Hits' in the title" or "every song that I rated 3+ stars and is
> not in the genre 'chick music'" and so on. It stores quite a lot of data about
> your music that can be used to build fairly diverse collections, quickly.
>
> Smart playlists, and the way that iTunes' data collection interacts with my
> iPods' data collection is what I really love about iTunes...
The big failing of iTunes - and of mp3 software in general, and I think
the same applies to ogg as well, although not being a hippy freeloader I
don't use that - is that each file can have no more than one genre.
That sucks particularly hard when you're trying to organise classical
music (and oh what a nasty overloaded term that is). Handel's "Zadok the
Priest", for example, is choral music, liturgical/sacred music, and
baroque music.
And don't even think about trying to organise stuff by composer*,
conductor*, orchestra*, venue, chorus* and soloist*. Clearly, no-one
thought that I might be specifically interested in the Du Pre
rendition of Elgar's cello concerto, or the von Karajan and Berlin
Phil's version of the Eroica symphony, amongst all the other recordings
of those works that I have.
* for certain works all these might be plural. Britten's War Requiem,
for example, is scored for two orchestras, two choirs, several
soloists and a small organ, and sometimes performed with two
conductors.
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