2014-02-19, 16:24
I have a collection of over 200 classical opera and concert performances, most of them captured from TV (mostly German Public TV). Few of those have been released on BD, so almost no information is available from IMDB and similar places.
I am trying to find the best way to prepare meta data for accessing the collection easily from xbmc. For my movies and TV shows I used MediaElch, which worked great.
For the classical music performances, I don't see an obvious way to proceed. Besides the name of the opera, a number of additional tags are required, such as
- composer
- performing opera house
- director
- soloists
For many operas, there are a number of different performances (different opera houses, different singers); it should be possible to tell those apart.
The "music video" category seems not well suited, as it lacks most of the desired meta information.
The "movie" category almost works, it seems to lack composer and director, but the "actor" tags could be used for the soloists. Can extra tags be defined?
A less apealing solution is to simply browse the recordings by file name. I have them neatly placed in different directories (by composer).
I would also like these recordings to show up in their own category, and not mixed in with feature films. There's a feature "custom video nodes" which looks promising, once I get the meta data in place.
I am grateful for advice and ideas on how to proceed.
Roman
I am trying to find the best way to prepare meta data for accessing the collection easily from xbmc. For my movies and TV shows I used MediaElch, which worked great.
For the classical music performances, I don't see an obvious way to proceed. Besides the name of the opera, a number of additional tags are required, such as
- composer
- performing opera house
- director
- soloists
For many operas, there are a number of different performances (different opera houses, different singers); it should be possible to tell those apart.
The "music video" category seems not well suited, as it lacks most of the desired meta information.
The "movie" category almost works, it seems to lack composer and director, but the "actor" tags could be used for the soloists. Can extra tags be defined?
A less apealing solution is to simply browse the recordings by file name. I have them neatly placed in different directories (by composer).
I would also like these recordings to show up in their own category, and not mixed in with feature films. There's a feature "custom video nodes" which looks promising, once I get the meta data in place.
I am grateful for advice and ideas on how to proceed.
Roman
