How to organize and tag classical music

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(09-05-2016 22:52)DavidHB Wrote:  I absolutely agree. My main frustration with MP3Tag at present is that I can't persuade it to run under Wine in Linux.

I use Puddletag on Linux. It's similar to mp3tag.

As to the rest of this discussion, I believe you either have to have a 'Composition' (I use 'Work') tag, or usurp Album (and hence AlbumArtist) for Composition. Since I don't want to lose the Album concept, the extra tag is needed. I extend this by adding 'WorkArtist' - the primary Artist(s) on the Work, and use AlbumArtist for the main artist of the whole Album (or 'Various' if none).

In MinimServer there is also the Group tag, which can serve for 'Composition', but has some minor constraints of its own (particularly where an Album contains more than one version of a Composition).

Consistency is everything in tagging. Tedious, but the benefits are too good to excuse not putting the effort in.