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This is incorrect, but it's principally incorrect because we all abuse the artist field to contain composer information. This is done, I surmise, because figuri
by kixiQu 4y ago
This is incorrect, but it's principally incorrect because we all abuse the artist field to contain composer information. This is done, I surmise, because figuring out when to display the composer information (performances of composed works) and when not to (bands) is too hard while delivering consistent UX.
- strbean 4y agoIt could be as simple as another piece of metadata on the track.
- kixiQu 4y agoAnd on the file level, it is! But then do you as a music player / streaming service display that all the time, when most people are not listening to classical music and do not care about the composer? Do you make the user manage which columns are visible? (Almost every HN user misses when more software did this. Almost every normal user found it confusing/annoying.) What about publishers who do not give a damn that Johann Sebastian Bach did not perform this digital recording because they know it'll SEO way better to have him in the artist field? Now are you displaying all that inconsistency?
- pbhjpbhj 4y agoIsn't it principally an industry thing to hide the composer, they don't want us to know that the pop is from a "factory" and picked for the artist, they want the public to believe the myth that the manufactured band sit on mountaintops with their instruments coming up with new grooves (or whatever). Can't you just let the user decide "artist + track" or "artist + composer(s) + track" or ...
- squeaky-clean 4y agoThat's their point though, it's not the same across musical industries. Pop music? Yeah people don't care about the composer credits. Classical music or a jazz standards band? You want the performing artist and the composer.
- pbhjpbhj 4y agoI was trying to express the idea that it was pop industry who made the decision that composers didn't matter rather than pop consumers and maybe that given the information pop listeners might well be happy to know where the pop comes from.
- strbean 4y agoI don't mean "add composer to the metadata", I mean add a field "primary artist key" which could have the value "composer", "performer", etc. How many fields are displayed is up to the UI, but having metadata to indicate what the most sensible field is would allow a simple UI like Spotify to just show that by default. Specifying on an individual level avoids trying to lump together genres and categorize which field matters most for each.
- vintermann 4y agoThat would be work for the label. Most of them won't DO the w word.