I apologize if this has been asked an answered. Due to the nature of it, I need to write this out and ask for advice specific to what I’m looking at on my desktop.
If I go to a record store, I’m not looking in the LSO section, I’m going to look in the Mahler section.
But there’s enough albums by an orchestra that have more than one composer on them.
For example, there’s this mess…
I suppose, ultimately, the question is if I’m going to listen to the entire performance as the conductor intended or am I going to go and just listen to Stravinsky’s The Firebird. I believe my answer to that would be that I’m going to listen to the whole album just as I’d put on a record or CD.
I’m using Music Tag Editor Pro to tag my files. So I’ve got a slot for composer and conductor. However, Plex doesn’t seem to make them usable. Which leaves me with Artist and Album Artist.
In my head, generally, the artist is the orchestra and the album artist is the composer. By tagging my files this way though, Plex is going to spilt an album based on the number of composers there are. Under Igor Stravinsky, I’ll have an album called Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Stravinsky: L’Oiseau de feu Suite missing the Mussorgsky tracks.
So, the solution would seem to be to make the artist the composer and the album artist the orchestra. Now the problem is that Plex is going to sort the albums by orchestra rather than composer. So browsing for albums by particular composers isn’t really possible.
I’ve been struggling with this for a while. Any friendly advise would be appreciated.