Originally Posted by VirusKiller
.....Powerful enough to handle classical music in a completely different way to non-classical. For example, instead of a single top-level menu item for my CD Library, I now have a menu for "Classical CDs" and a menu for "Non-Classical CDs". Under Classical CDs, I have sub-menus for Composer, Conductor, Artist and Album; because composer comes from the "Composer" tag, I don't need to make "Beethoven" an artist and so Beethoven does not appear in the artist list... Ditto composers (if I want - not decided on that yet). For Non-Classical CDs, I have sub-menus for Artist, Album, Genre/Sub-Genre and Decade.....

Please can someone direct the Sooloos database designers to this structure? It would improve Sooloos no end, to have My Library -> Classical or Non-classical as the first classification of library content, with subsequent menus pretty much as VK has suggested.

Or is the fact that Joel appears to be setting this up for himself, the result of shortcomings inherent in the commercial metadata databases which these applications seem to use? If those databases use the same fields for both classical and non-classical (ie. the same field would contain The Beatles for one (Beatles) CD and Mahler for another (Mahler) CD) then I really can't see how it is ever going to work.

Neil

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