Format considerations

Manuel A. McLure (mmt nospam at Unify.Com)
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 09:35:52 -0800

First of all, kudos on your alacrity in starting the new project. I do,
however, have a wish-list item for the track format.

On classical CDs, you often have two or three pieces, each with three or
four movements taking up a track apiece. When entering track information,
you must either repeat the piece information for each movement, or lose the
piece information on movements after the first. I suggest adding a "Piece"
keyword that will give a two-level track naming scheme. For example (this is
totally made up, so please no Beethoven fans come beating down my door
because I got the movements wrong :-) ):

NumMatches: 1
Artist: Ludwig Van Beethoven / London Symphony Orchestra
Album: Symphonies 5 & 6
Tracks: 8
Piece1: Symphony 5 in B-flat major
Track1: Allegro
Track2: Molto Vivato
Track3: Andante
Track4: Lento
Piece2: Symphony 6 in F minor
Track5: Andante con Moto
Track6: Lento
Track7: Con Brio
Track8: Allegretto

Also, we may want to allow the same CD to be listed in various languages.
Many classical CDs have multiple track descriptions in different languages,
it would be nice if someone in Italy could see the descriptions in Italian
while Americans see it in English.

Just my $0.02...

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Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW <mmt nospam at unify.com>