300GB of my 385GB is classical music. I admit that getting consistent metadata input into iTunes was a chore when I ripped my discs, but that was the fault of the databases not iTunes.
Well, not to beat a dead horse, but I consider the databases to be a big part - perhaps the most critical part - of these kinds of products, and Apple certainly has the resources and market clout to license or develop better data than the user-supplied info on Gracenote. That they haven't, I think, speaks to the fact that none of the serious free/affordable competition has either (dBpoweramp is an exception, but they only license the basic AMG data, not the advanced data you see in Sooloos).
But better data wouldn't help much as long as iTunes itself doesn't allow the database to be extended with new categories of tags. What I want is classical music data that includes Conductor, Ensemble, Work, Work type, Opus, performance date, Artists, instrument types, etc. The only product I'm aware of that allows you to explicitly create tags (and use them in browsing) for such info is J River. But entering all that stuff for every CD, and making sure its absolutely consistent in spelling, etc, is just beyond my level of patience. I'd rather pay someone else to do it right, for everybody, and have us all do other things with our time
I may just have to give up and buy a Sooloos after all.
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