quote of the day

[rone]

"I say, follow your dreams!  Even if they're about a giant spider with your father's head and he keeps stealing your penis."

        — Dean Venture

Comments

[thedarkages]

I've always liked the third movement of the Ninth. Pity Gracenote doesn't realize that it's by Beethoven.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Well, the performing artist is displayed and not the composer, as is the case with the popular music i have. There is some argument over whether classical music should be displayed the same way as popular music. mmcirvin or iayork might know more.

[iayork.livejournal.com]

If you use a Mac, and post with XJournal, there's a simple enough workaround. I use a little applescript to swap in the correct form for my classical music.

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tell application "iTunes"
set This_Artist to artist of current track
set this_album to album of current track
set This_Composer to composer of current track
end tell
activate
set Track_Info to This_Composer & " - " & this_album & " - " & This_Artist

activate application "Xjournal"
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Xjournal"
-- GUI Scripting statements:
set value of text field 2 of window 1 to Track_Info

end tell
end tell

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In my case I save the name of classical works as "album", but you could just switch album to grouping or whatever.

I save the script in the script menu, so it appears in the menubar pulldown.

GUI scripting needs to be enabled.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

1) What about us Windows lusers?

2) I am uncomfortable treating classical music differently. Don't the musicians deserve to be listed? What about the conductor? Should the composer have chosen a more easily recognizable title for their work than Symphony/Concerto/Sonata and a number, despite the fact that the composer couldn't possibly have foreseen that centuries down the road, obsessive music fans would argue over nomenclature like their lives depended on it?

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

I am uncomfortable treating classical music differently.

So, you chromasort all your records, then?

[pootrootbeer.livejournal.com]

I tag my classical music in iTunes thusly:

Artist: (Soloist Name, if Deserved /) Conductor Name / Performing Group Name
Title: Title of Work: Mvt#. Title (or tempo marking) of movement
Composer: Composer (duh)
Album: Label and Catalog Number, just like pretentious journalists refer to classical recordings by
Year: copyright date of recording (original recording, if remastered for CD)

Except for showcase works like concerti, soloists usually do not deserve to be credited. Their egos are too big already.