Who is the composer? >> Improved labelling of Music

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
November 6, 2017
69 replies
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The classical music albums would need much better labeling, please. As music lovers yourself, you certainly appreciate how finding the classical music is greatly improved with good labeling. In practice, they need a different data set than your run-of-the-mill popular music albums.

Take an example: album Mutterissimo (https://www.deezer.com/us/album/14780657), track 1. Which concerto are we listening to, please? I.e. a critical piece of information is missing, the composer.

Take another example: Alfred Bendel Plays Beethoven Volume 3 (https://www.deezer.com/us/album/6462183). This definitely ought to be listed under 'Beethoven, Ludwig van'. If, for some reason, you have to reference the soloist, wouldn't that also be more logical under 'Brendel' than 'Alfred'?

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Mika

Roadie

Current classical music metadata is far from good. Other streaming services are setting artist=composer, which is also practice musicbrainz is using. Can Deezer change their metadata to follow musicbrainz practices when it comes to classical music? I am asking this, because current metadata causes loads of incorrect last.fm scrobbles.

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jsk

Roadie

Agreed! There doesn't appear to be any consistency or real thought given to the labelling/meta data of classical music. This is a problem when you can easily have 100 recordings of the same work by different artists. An 'advanced' search function is needed to differentiate composer, orchestra, soloist, choir, label, etc. Finding specific recordings quickly is a constant challenge - and it shouldn't be.

Also annoying is the lack of info on multi-disc titles where you can't read from the track what the piece actually is.

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Nathalie Marshall

One Hit Wonder

Add to that the lack of sub genre's for searching."CLASSICAL" is not a genre it's a collection of genre. Surely there is room for more??

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Rafael Sakamoto

Roadie

I am a classical musician and an assiduous listener.

I think Deezer is very poorly designed for classical music!!!!!!

I wish I could help with that...

Anja

Deezer Staff

Hi Mika, just to update you: I've passed it on as feedback to our team. So far I can't share any updates regarding this, but I hope that more users will vote for you idea so that the team will see how important the metadata for classical music is. I will also keep you posted about any updates 🙂

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Alan.Peill

Roadie

Where an album includes music by more than one composer, it is essential to add the name of the composer to each track title. To describe a track only as eg. "Symphony No 1. 1st Movement" is meaningless.

Flo.Deezer

Ultimate Superstar

Hi @Alan.Peill I have moved your topic to this one as it has the same idea ;)

Hopefully we can do something about this soon, vote above 😉

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dionisic

Guitar Hero

Forcing compilations (especially those non-official) and playlists, instead albums, is repulsive.
Also, giving advantages to the latest albums and (when it comes to classical music) to the latest performances and editions is not something that points to professionalism.
I can understand that's the reason for this is commercial, but there should be a certain level.
Classical compositions are regularly quoted without full names, and when it comes to editions with more than one composer, almost regularly the composers are not mentioned with the name of the compositions. That's the very low level.