Who is the composer? >> Improved labelling of Music

Like on other streaming sites, the available album cover is often the only source for additional information with classical music releases. So check the play queue as well, because there you will get the biggest version of the album cover in Deezer and might identify some small print info that is not recognisable in the thumbnail image.

Also clicking on the currently playing track title in the player bar will lead you to the album page where you might find some more info like additional artists for each track.

Also I would like to say, developers can use Primephonic’s metadata scheme, it was pretty cool until sold to Apple and deprecated.

The suggestion to improve classical music metadata was made 4 years ago, but there has been no improvement so far. At a minimum, classical music should list all the artists, composer(s), each work title, and movement names. Apple Music has a separate field for composer, but Spotify adds it to the artists, which is better than nothing, though not ideal. Many albums don’t even list the work name! They list the movement (e.g., I. Allegro) but not the work! This is unacceptable for classical music. Look at this album for an example: 

Except for track 7, the work name isn’t listed. All the other major music services list the work titles:

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/gade-chamber-works-vol-3/1213196965

https://listen.tidal.com/album/71340258

https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B06XH41R75

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​@Flo.Deezer,  ​@Leonídia.Deezer ​@Engineering SQUAD 

HO, th following post by another Deezer user ( ​@Engineering SQUAD) in another thread was very clear on what’s needed. What’s a happening?

From ​@Engineering SQUAD 

I offer the improvement for and academical music representation on Deezer catalog which can improve listening and discovering experience.

Here is my idea:

Academical music representation in the catalog should differs from representation of regular songs.

For regular songs we have such credits: 

• Artist
• Track name
• Album

But academical music have such credits (as minimum):

• Track name
• Performer (Front-man/soloist/orchestra/band which performs the piece) (this type of entity is pretty close to Deezer’s “artist” entity)
• Author (composer which created the original composition (composed it)) (also close to Deezer’s “artist” entity)
• Work (composition) (one “work” can be performed by different “performers”)
• Recoding (the “Performer” and “Work” combination) (close to the Deezer’s “album entity”)

Example:

• Track name:  “1. Introitus: Requiem”
• Performer: “Berliner Philharmoniker”&”Herbert Von Karajan”
• Composer: “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”
• Work: “Requiem in D minor, K.626”
• Recording: “Berliner Philharmoniker performs Requiem in D minor”

Would be great to add those fields to the track’s metadata and make it clickable, to surf the favorite works, orchestras, composers by clicking on focusing parameter.

After many years using and really enjoying Deezer I moved over to Apple Music. One of the main reasons was the poor tracing of classical music in Deezer.