Classical Mode: help needed!

[pending]

Indeed Classical has further complexities, but with this comes the difficulty of how that works in the overall Sense library and how we do easily segragate these differences from non-Classical music. Option 2 does feel like this is the easier option, whereby if you wanted to listen to non-Classical music and did not want the clutter of the Composer etc on pop music then the 'Classical Mode' could just be disabled.
Keep in mind with Option 3 by having a per-album mode/switch, this would mean manually going through all your Classical albums and enabling it. The best thing we could do to try and automate this a bit more would be Option 4 where you could select specific existing tags in your library and instruct that any album with that tag should become a 'Classical' version specifically, but this does completely rely on quite a well-maintained tagging system on your files.

Understood. Option #4 would work for me, for both local and streaming services.

 

[pending]

Also worth pointing out that if you have an music library that is 100% Classical, or have only a tiny amount of non-Classical, then I think the no-brainer is just option 2 where by default we just immediately enable all albums with the expanded 'classical' data fields. For the handful of non-Classical albums you have, okay, you might get the Composer info listed more which may or may not be useful to you, that metadata could actually be edited and deleted if it was an annoyance.
It becomes more of a challenge with a large library where the balance is more 50:50 between Classical and non-Classical.

So let me put this another way with a more simple question; for the Classical users here with a keen interest in this Classical Mode, would you say that over 75% of your library is Classical?

Approx. 25% classical here -- I'm probably an outlier

 

[Stephen Healy]

Regarding the comment from @pending over on the Feature Request section with respect to too many tag checkboxes; I think this is a good point. Classical does come with a huge amount of potential 'sub genres' and any number of ways for further tagging, as further demonstrated by @cantorgale recent comment.

I suggested the idea to my dev team that perhaps some kind of toggle button here to group tags that are pre-defined as belonging to Classical could be enabled, so that all Classical-related tags get brought to the top of library filters in its own specialist sub-section, and away from all the non-Classical tags. We could have something similar in the main Genres & Tags tab too.

Would this be useful?

 

[guardajoias]

Yes that would be very good, but how would you handle “custom tags” say “Russian Opera” for example? Could we define subgenre as being “of the classical type” a bit like your idea of a switch”… Also please implement this together with the ability to override Qobuz tags

 

[Stephen Healy]

Yes that would be very good, but how would you handle “custom tags” say “Russian Opera” for example? Could we define subgenre as being “of the classical type” a bit like your idea of a switch”… Also please implement this together with the ability to override Qobuz tags

Yes, I was thinking 'Classical' as a tag would in fact just become a kind of umbrella or grouping for an entirely separate set of tags that all relate to the Classical genre as a whole, to which 'Russian Opera' would belong.