For classical, where I have many instances of multiple recordings of the same thing, the composer is always correct, while the performer may get tagged in at the end of the album title. I don't care about who covers whose stuff I care about the performer. For rock and jazz, artist and composer are usually the same. Having different rules by genre is a headache, but I get by. And it doesn't help that different iPod and iOS music players over the years have used different rules for grouping by composer or artist. It doesn't help that the whole concept of metadata deals poorly with classical. iTunes is seriously inadequate for this, but I don't know of anything better. This is a long-term project that's been going on for years. I also edit metadata heavily (again, using iTunes) for music I've purchased, the only purpose of the metadata is to help my find stuff. I'm still using iTunes (Windows) to organize music that's mostly played on my phone while driving. Since all this information is, ostensibly, already in the metadata of the songs, I wonder if anyone, anywhere, has ever created such a front end, such a user interface? It'd be something that takes information that's already there and presents it in a user-friendly interface for the iPad. I know I could spend a few years creating a database with all this detail, though I don't know of a way to integrate such a database into the Music app. Or taking all my music from Denmark and making a Denmark playlist. Or all albums on which John Abercrombie appears and making a John Abercrombie playlist. Like taking all albums tagged as "jazz" and making a jazz playlist. I sometimes wish it had more capabilities. The program used is Apple's "Music," which organizes by album or artist, and will play sequentially or in "shuffle play." The iPad connects to my iMac and will play any music on the iMac's hard drives, via Bluetooth, over my stereo. I can sit in my easy chair, here in my music room, playing music from my iPad.
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