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GtrsRGr8 · 11-30-2016, 07:54 PM

You can relax. I don't have another free classical music piece that I'm going to tell you about (however, if you wanted one, maybe I could dig one up . . . .). ha

I am actually asking you for something, however. It has to do with labelling the classical music files and keeping them organized (e.g., everything by Tchaikovsky in one folder, everything by Dvorak in another folder, etc.)

I only checked today's YourClassical download, but I'm sure that the following holds true for the rest of them. The name of the file tells you almost nothing. I checked "Properties" (to do it, on the Chrome browser and maybe others, you right click) and there was almost nothing there, either--the only things that I saw of value were the bit rate and length of the recording! Nice things to know, but not really bases for filing the little treasures away.

So, I have a warning and a question. The warning is, it seems that if you don't manually enter metadata(?) for the piece somewhere, yourself, you are not going to be able to identify who composed the piece, the performer(s), etc. if you want to in the future. That is, unless you have a photographic memory, or are such a superlative virtuoso of classical music that you can identify all of that stuff just upon hearing the recording (neither one of those apply to me).

The question (actually two of them): after downloading a file, do you add such information to the file name or somehow else associate the information with the file by entering it somewhere else? Or, maybe there's a database somewhere, where you can relatively simply pull the information from it?. Second, do you keep your classical music files organized; if so, what is your method?

If I don't start doing something, one of these days I'm going to have a virtual tall stack of classical music recordings without any idea of what's on them. Of course, I could create, endlessly, playlists by randomly selecting a bunch of the files, but I foresee a time when I'd like to chose a file with a particular composer, or orchestra, or whatever, and not be able to do it.

I'm thinking that maybe I should just stream the free pieces several times to see whether or not I enjoy them then and, if I do, just buy the bloomin' album. That's probably one reason why recording companies giveaway pieces (albums are a different matter)--they hope that that leads you to buy their complete product (the album).

11-30-2016, 07:54 PM	#1139
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	You can relax. I *don't* have another free classical music piece that I'm going to tell you about (however, if you wanted one, maybe I could dig one up . . . .). ha I am actually asking *you* for something, however. It has to do with labelling the classical music files and keeping them organized (e.g., everything by Tchaikovsky in one folder, everything by Dvorak in another folder, etc.) I only checked today's YourClassical download, but I'm sure that the following holds true for the rest of them. The name of the file tells you almost nothing. I checked "Properties" (to do it, on the Chrome browser and maybe others, you right click) and there was almost nothing there, either--the only things that I saw of value were the bit rate and length of the recording! Nice things to know, but not really bases for filing the little treasures away. So, I have a warning and a question. The warning is, it seems that if you don't manually enter metadata(?) for the piece somewhere, yourself, you are not going to be able to identify who composed the piece, the performer(s), etc. if you want to in the future. That is, unless you have a photographic memory, or are such a superlative virtuoso of classical music that you can identify all of that stuff just upon hearing the recording (neither one of those apply to me). The question (actually two of them): after downloading a file, do you add such information to the file name or somehow else associate the information with the file by entering it somewhere else? Or, maybe there's a database somewhere, where you can relatively simply pull the information from it?. Second, do you keep your classical music files organized; if so, what is your method? If I don't start doing something, one of these days I'm going to have a virtual tall stack of classical music recordings without any idea of what's on them. Of course, I could create, endlessly, playlists by randomly selecting a bunch of the files, but I foresee a time when I'd like to chose a file with a particular composer, or orchestra, or whatever, and not be able to do it. I'm thinking that maybe I should just stream the free pieces several times to see whether or not I enjoy them then and, if I do, just buy the bloomin' album. That's probably one reason why recording companies giveaway pieces (albums are a different matter)--they hope that that leads you to *buy* their complete product (the album).