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2012-11-12, 12:18
(This post was last modified: 2012-11-12, 12:20 by sstavross.)
Another band-aid approach could be to use GENRE for COMPOSER tag. I don't use GENRE for classical music, so I'll put the composer's name to it. I'll make a profile in xbmc for classical music and another profile for the rest of my music and I'll tag the first one with composer's name in GENRE and the other one as usual.
But I agree that COMPOSER's tag must be supported in XBMC. It is not like a "PRODUCER tag". It is fundamental in classical music!
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2013-01-23, 17:30
(This post was last modified: 2013-01-23, 17:35 by Vertigo.)
Another vote for better support for classical music!
Ive been trying to avoid the problems in a different way; running MediaMonkey on a windows machine, and accessing its content in XBMC over uPnP. Ive only just started experimenting, but it appears that does let you sort and search by composer and other (if need be, custom) tags. Of course its still a kludge, it requires I run a windows machine non stop just for this, and you lose almost all of XBMC's library functions..
BTW, would it be a good idea to setup "bounties" for features we'd like to see implemented?
Im willing to donate, but Id like my donation to steer development in a certain way, like say, better support for classical music libraries. Im pretty sure Im not alone, so if we could pool some pledges for such a cause, with the funds being released when the feature is implemented, perhaps it would inspire some devs to tackle this?
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+1 for adding support for composer tags. This would be a huge improvement. XBMC is a great piece of software, but as it stands, its music capabilities are (unfortunately) somewhat crippled.
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+1 for adding support for composer tags.