iTunes and classical "songs"

[Brian Wolven]

Andrew Brown wrote:
> Does anyone know of a list where people try to make sense of classical 
> music and iTunes (and the iPhone) ?
> 
> I have imported a number of cds into iTunes, and what iTunes calls 
> "songs" have gone here there and everywhere, depending on what name the 
> recording company decided to give the composer (assuming they bothered 
> to mention him at all), whether the album had a name, how the tracks 
> were numbered, and so on, each recording company having reinvented the 
> wheel and come up with something wholly square.
> 
> Then I paid for a few hours of Wagner, which is in my iTunes Music 
> folder but which is invisible to iTunes unless I select the "songs" on 
> the disk and play them, and which does not sync down to my iPhone.
> 
> I suppose that what I'd like to do is rename the files on the disk, sort 
> them into folders in a sensible way, and say to iTunes "right, use that 
> and only that and nothing else".

With a bit of TLC for the various tags, and liberal use of smart 
playlists, you can do pretty well in iTunes. Here are some links to 
articles explaining ways to do this.


Taming iTunes for Classical Music
   http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/itunes.htm

Tagging Classical Music
   http://www.macworld.com/article/43791/2005/03/tagclass.html

Classical Music on the iPod and iTunes
   http://www.macworld.com/article/43560/2005/03/classicalipod.html


And there are, of course, many more links - and opinions - out there.