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Who is the composer? >> Improved labelling of Music

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
November 6, 2017
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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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Rudi

Ultimate Superstar

Hi there @elck

I'm a fan of Classical myself so I understand your frustration.
But like any idea of improvement, we need users to vote so that it can be prioritised among all ideas, right? I've got my vote here and hopefully getting more, this idea gets off the ground.
Perhaps if we develop better tags in general, the experience will improve 😉

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elck

Guitar Hero

This problem has been noted here for over a year.
As today is the last day of my premium test account I don't think it will be solved in time.
I like Teezer better than Sp*ttify in many ways, but if I cannot even find the Goldberg Variations then I guess this is goodbye.

Rudi

Ultimate Superstar

@elck

Would you like me to look into the "Goldberg Variations" specifically? I know there are a few shortcomings when it comes to Classical as we've established here but we need more users to vote for it so that it can be prioritised by the devs.

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elck

Guitar Hero

Nope, it was just an example. A classical piece, not found under composer, consisting of many tracks with non descriptive names like variation or menuet or canon etc.

bluezzbastardzz

Superuser

https://www.deezer.com/search/goldberg%20variations

If you want to see e.g. more related albums, just click on the header of the relevant section from the search results.

ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)

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tdimdadAuthor

Guitar Hero

We've been begging for this for ages, all to deaf ears. And this certainly is without any winks or other smilies as we want to be serious about it...

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tdimdadAuthor

Guitar Hero

Sigh, again! One of your new albums lacking proper credits because of the sloppy system (let's be generous and not imply it'd be the lack of willingness by management) running this service.
https://www.deezer.com/en/album/87718362

The album has perfectly good data, including your lovely competitor's service. Why not in Deezer???

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Roee

Roadie

In compilation albums sometime you don't even know who you are listening to, as the composer data is just not there.
It's really annoying.

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Muddy Mary

Roadie

I'm sorry to see that Deezer still did not tackle this problem: Incompetent! Summer is coming up. Employ some students and apply the correct naming convention. Because the composer not being in the data is irritating de living daylights out of me.

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aficionado

Guitar Hero

For listeners of a classical music piece, the name of its composer is essential.

I agree. I have been listening to music on several albums by Andrés Segovia. Within the listings for the same album the format is inconsistent. For example, for an album called Icon: Andrés Segovia one track is listed as "Bach, JS: Prelude in C minor, BWV 999", while another is simply "Prelude in E (2008 Remastered Version)".

Hope someone will take this seriously.

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