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BurgaFlippinMan

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I'm talking about the 'Artist' tag on your mp3s. Do you name the composer or the guy conducting? I'm personally mixed, where I tag John Debney or Erich Kunzel for their rerecordings but I name Ottman for Superman Returns (instead of that Intradabartolo something fella). How about you?

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Well, I always use both the "composer" tag and the "artist" tag. So composer always goes in the former tag, obviously. And they usually go in the artist tag as well unless there is someone else, like a conductor, soloist, singer, etc., in which case I put them.

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I keep my iTunes simple, so I don't use the "Composer" section. I just credit John Williams. His name appears in the Artist column most of the time when I get the info from the CDDB or whatever it's called.

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I have the arist set as the composer - so all my Williams CDs are together in iTunes when I sort by artist. If there is a soloist, or someone else very significent, I put them in the track title, for example the Gerhardt recording of Citizen Kane has the "Aria from Salaambo" under Artist: Bernard Herrmann, and track title "Aria from Salaambo (soloist: Kiri Te Kanawa)".

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I put the composer as Artist and in Composer I put a category name, such as "John Williams", "Jerry Goldsmith" or "Other Composers". That way I don't have too many different composers in my composers list and I still see the actual composer when I play the track. I don't put the conductor, soloists or orchestra anywhere in the tracks. Apart from songs: I put the soloist as Artist there.

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With those, I just put Gerhardt's name in the album title. For re-recordings, I put the score title, then the conductor in brackets (unless it's conducted by the composer, in which case I just put "re-recording"). So for the Gerhardt Star Wars albums, I have "Star Wars (Gerhardt)", "Empire Strikes Back, The (Gerhardt)", etc.

;) Alfred Newman - Wuthering Heights (Bernstein) 8O

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